Providing or containing no milk; lacking milk. Also figurative.

Weak, washy.

colloquial. Of tea: very weak. Now rare.

Of tea: allowed to draw for too long (see draw, v. 65).

Of the taste or flavour of tea: harsh, bitter.

Of the flavour of tea: mellow (see quot. 1892). Obs. rare.

Suggestive of being stewed; having a stewed flavour; resembling stew.

charged or impregnated with tannin.

Of tea: that tastes of the pot; strong, stewed. rare.

In modern use, of liquors (mainly spirits): Strong, potent. Also of tea and loosely, denoting a generous measure.

Of meat, fruit, vegetables: Cooked by slow boiling in a closed vessel. Of tea: Made strong and bitter by being kept too long in the pot.

Designating an unpleasant taste caused by or resembling that of a metal.