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ˈdiet-drink
[f. diet n.1 + drink.]
A drink prescribed and prepared for medicinal purposes.
1600Rowlands Let. Humours Blood vi. 76 We gaue the Brewers Diet-drinke a wipe. 1601Holland Pliny II. 317 As for the diet drink made of cow milk..I have written already in my treatise of herbs. 1693Oliver in Phil. Trans. XVII. 909 A pleasant..soft Water..which the Country People use in Fevers as their ordinary Diet-drink. 1744Berkeley Siris §9 The leaves and tender tops of pine and fir are..used for diet drinks. 1844–57G. Bird Urin. Deposits 455 The host of apozems, diuretic decoctions, and diet-drinks, in which renal stimulants abound. 1854–67C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol. 214 Diet Drink, a decoction of sarsaparilla and mezereon. The Lisbon diet drink, or compound decoction of sarsaparilla, which it resembles, is the most celebrated. |