Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Broth made by boiling barley and meat with vegetables.
- noun Ale or beer: used jocosely, and also in contempt, as in the extract.
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Examples
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Convince him of absurdity and vanity, when he mixes herbs, metals, and animals, and things from sea and land, in one potion; and recommend him to neglect these, and to confine all physic to barley-broth, gourds, and oil mixed with water.
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Convince him of absurdity and vanity, when he mixes herbs, metals, and animals, and things from sea and land, in one potion; and recommend him to neglect these, and to confine all physic to barley-broth, gourds, and oil mixed with water.
Symposiacs 2004
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When Aunt Deborah is laid up with one of _her_ colds she always has a wonderful accession of "propriety" accompanying the disorder; and that which would appear to her at the worst a harmless _escapade_ when in her usual health and spirits becomes a crime of the blackest dye when seen through the medium of barley-broth and water-gruel -- these being
Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville
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One table spoonful of seasoned suet will, at any time, make good barley-broth or potato-soup for two persons.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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The fore-part, the neck, is boiled and makes sweet barley-broth, and the meat, when well boiled, or rather the whole pottage simmered for a considerable time _beside_ the fire, eats tenderly.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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For the same reason, long before she could read aloud to her mother intelligibly, she had learnt all that Harriet could teach her, not only of the house-work, but of the cooking, from cleaning a fish and trussing a fowl to making barley-broth and puff-pastry.
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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It makes an excellent stew, as also sweet barley-broth, and the meat eats well when boiled in it.
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We eat haggis, sheep-head, barley-broth and blood puddings.
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At this moment I was sitting taking some barley-broth; our fire was very small, and the night was pitch-dark and windy.
Forest & Frontiers 1867
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The liquid was marvellously like barley-broth, with which delicacy he was well acquainted.
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