rice watern.

1609 W. B. tr. Philosophers Banquet i. xxviii. f. 30 (margin) Rice water augmenteth beauty, & cleareth the skin.

1678 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Indian Trav. i. xviii. 97 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. To every Traveller they give some of their Beans, and Rice-water [Fr. l'eau de ris], and an handful of Rice to eat.

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. viii. 179 The Leaves keep Women with Child from the Vertigo, for boil'd in Rice-water they dry superfluous humors.

1784 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children 258 Barley-water..or if a purging attends, rice-water.

1856 Orr's Circle Sci.: Pract. Chem. 167 Rice-water is commonly recommended as the vehicle, on account of the starch it contains.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xxi. 666 The drinks throughout were plain water, rice-water, and lemonade.

1934 M. T. King Mothercraft xii. 193 Work gradually back to a full diet by means of simple, easily-digested food, such as boiled milk diluted with rice water.

1984 Times 19 May 10/5 The average village home is unlikely to produce enough ricewater to save a seriously ill child.

1997 A. Roy God of Small Things (1998) i. 29 The two bottles of rice water that she drank instead of ordinary water.

1825 J. Annesley Sketches Dis. India i. ii. 20 The vomitings and stools are now frequent, and consist entirely of a fluid resembling rice-water, with mucous flocculi and albuminous matter floating in it.]

1832 Metropolitan 3 443 The Board [of Health] speaks of rice-water evacuations.

1866 J. 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.

1883 Fortn. Rev. Aug. 181 The rice-water purgings and cramps.

1914 J. C. McClure Handbk. Fevers v. 86 Cholera sicca is the name which has been given to a very fatal class of case in which..there is almost no diarrhœa or vomiting, and no passage of ‘rice-water’ stools.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) x. 217 In man the [cholera] vibrio is found in enormous numbers in the rice-water stools associated with the disease, and in the infected mucous membrane.

2006 New Yorker 6 Nov. 110/1 The first sign that you have it is a sudden and explosive watery diarrhea, classically described as ‘rice-water stool’, resembling the water in which rice has been rinsed and sometimes having a fishy smell.