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barley-water
n. (alternative spelling of barley water English)
Usage examples of "barley-water".
There be some who do give these tabid or consumptives a certain posset made with lime-water and anise and liquorice and raisins of the sun, and there be other some who do give the juice of craw-fishes boiled in barley-water with chickenbroth, but these be toys, as I do think, and ye shall find as good virtue, nay better, in this syrup of the simple called Maidenhair.
I told the maidservants they could rest for a little and sent one of them to bring the earthenware jug of barley-water from the kitchen.