A drink, made by the decoction of pearl barley, used as a demulcent. †strong barley water: ale.

a medicine or astringent made from oak bark.

A mixture of water and oil, formerly used medicinally.

a decoction of plantain.

a ‘water’ distilled from lilies.

orange-flower water; also water of napha.

a decoction made from cowslips, used medicinally.

a preparation made by soaking ants in alcohol and distilling the resulting liquid, used medicinally as a stimulant.

a decoction made from succory, used as a cooling draught.

A solution of lime in water, used medicinally and in the clarification of sugar.

a medicinal liquid prepared from onions.

a liquid obtained by distillation from the leaves of pennyroyal, formerly used medicinally.

water in which heated irons have been dipped, formerly in popular use as a medicine.

the water obtained by distillation from the leaves of the cherry-laurel and containing a small proportion of prussic acid.

‘The wonderful water, prepared of cloves, galangals, cubebs, mace, cardomums, nutmegs, ginger, and spirit of wine, digested twenty-four hours, then…

An infusion of tar in cold water, formerly in repute as a medicine.

a suspension of calcium hydroxide in water; lime water.

= cherry laurel n. at sense 3c; hence laurel-cherry water = laurel-water n.

(a) an infusion or decoction of flies; (b) (see quot. 1855); (c) water suitable for fly-fishing.

a medicinal infusion of herbs.