| 单词 | viper-wine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasviper-wine viper-wine n. wine medicated by an extract or decoction obtained from vipers, formerly drunk on account of its supposed restorative or vitalizing properties. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > medicinal wine viper-wine1631 mandrake winea1640 wine whey1769 mandragora1844 tonic wine1899 Sanatogen1924 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > restorative > specific Hungarian1600 viper-wine1631 Hungary water1697 1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson 59 Their Viper-wines, to make old age presume To feele new lust, and youthfull flames agin. a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) iv. i. 27 Your viper wine soe much in practise with gray bearded gallants [is] but vappa to the nectar of her lippe. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator No. 12 (1748) II. 292 Lady Frolick pouring a glass of viper wine down his throat. 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. ii. 372 Galen..relates very remarkable cures of this disease [sc. elephantiasis] performed by means of viper wine. 1896 Academy 28 Nov. 448/3 The legend that Lady Digby died of drinking viper-wine. < as lemmas |
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