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  • noun Alternative spelling of barley water.

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Examples

  • Such a person cannot escape, unless critical sweats and gentle sleep supervene, and thick and acrid urine be passed, or the disease terminate in an abscess: give pine-fruit and myrrh in a linctus, and further give a very little oxymel to drink; but if they are very thirsty, some barley-water.

    On Regimen In Acute Diseases 2007

  • The two doctors were for keeping him on gruel, lemonade, barley-water, and so on.

    The Moonstone 2003

  • Charles, fearing that she would faint, ran to the refreshment-room to get a glass of barley-water.

    Madame Bovary 2003

  • Several types are made into various barley-water drinks, most of them nonalcoholic.

    13. Other Cultivated Grains 1996

  • This condition was attributed to his fatigues and exposure in a hard climate, and to his habit of drinking warm barley-water in the morning.

    Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 Ruth Putnam

  • In the royal kitchen the cook was bending over his fires, while an assistant mixed a beverage of barley-water, yolks of eggs and senna wine for Charles when he should become aroused.

    Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

  • Christian cowboys still do so at times unless they have acquired grace and the barley-water habit.

    Pan-Islam

  • Another means of relieving habitual colic is the use of partially peptonized milk (page 115); still another the dilution with barley-water instead of plain water.

    The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses L. Emmett Holt

  • At night he can take barley-water, with juice of sorrel and of waterlilies, of each two ounces, with four or five grains of opium, and the four cold seeds crushed, of each half an ounce; which is a good nourishing remedy and will make him sleep.

    The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

  • _ -- An emetic of apomorphine; demulcent drinks, such as barley-water, white of egg and water, linseed-tea and gruel (but not oils), with a hypodermic injection of morphine to allay pain.

    Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

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