A light, liquid food (chiefly used as an article of diet for invalids) made by boiling oatmeal (or occasionally some other farinaceous substance)…

A thin liquid food of oatmeal or other meal boiled in water, sometimes with additional ingredients such as herbs, spices, or dried fruit; gruel made…

A strong broth, made of meat, fowl, etc., boiled and strained; used especially as a nourishing food for sick persons. ‘Beef-tea’ is a well-known form.

A broth made from chicken or chicken bones, esp. one valued for its restorative properties (cf. chicken soup, n.). Also: chicken stock.

Originally: a broth, jelly, or gravy made from the juices of roasted or grilled meat; = cullis, n.1 (now historical and rare). Now usually: a thick…

a decoction or gruel of barley or barley-meal.

a decoction or gruel of maize or maize meal.

A soup made from chicken or chicken bones, esp. one valued for its restorative properties (cf. chicken soup, n.).

= barley-milk n.

a watery gruel, typically having poor nutritional content; (figurative) something insubstantial, unsatisfying, or inadequate.

broth made from vipers, or in which a viper has been boiled, formerly supposed to possess nutritive or invigorating properties.

A kind of gruel.

the juice of beef extracted by prolonged simmering in a very little water, used as a nutritious food for invalids.

The water in which rice has been boiled; used as an article of diet for invalids, and as starch.

In full Revalenta Arabica. A preparation of lentil and barley flour, sold as a food for invalids.

Scottish and Irish English (northern). Thin gruel (usually as a drink); spec. = water gruel, n. 1. Cf. skink, n.2 1.

water in which toasted bread has been steeped, used as a drink for invalids, etc.