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单词 rice-water
释义 rice-water
[rice n.2]
1. A liquid, for drinking or other purposes, prepared from rice boiled in water.
1789G. Parker Life's Painter iv. 31 Genuine Hollands, or right Jamaica, qualified with rice-water, spirited lemons, and a proper dash of fragrant oranges.1797Underwood Disorders Childhood III. 88 Thin tapioca, or if a purging attends, rice-water.1856Orr's Circ. Sci., Pract. Chem. 167 Rice-water is commonly recommended as the vehicle, on account of the starch it contains.1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xxi. 666 The drinks throughout were plain water, rice-water, and lemonade.
2. Used attrib. to describe the evacuations of cholera-patients.
1833Lancet 12 Oct. 116/2 The rice-water evacuations which notoriously result from the disease.1866J. R. Reynolds Syst. Med. I. 150 The name of rice-water stool has been given to the genuine unmixed cholera evacuation... When the rice-water evacuations appear, cramps generally set in.1876J. S. Bristowe The. & Pract. Med. (1878) 241 The rice-water fluid, as found in the intestines, is alkaline.1883Fortn. Rev. Aug. 181 The rice-water purgings and cramps.
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