Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Medicated liquor; drink prepared with medicinal ingredients.
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Examples
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As if the diet-drink situation wasn't bad enough, even more devastating for me personally were the recently released photos of Jared the Subway guy.
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They have picked up a few of my habits -- a love of full-calorie Coca-Cola (an anomaly with their diet-drink parents) and a love of Easter-egg hunts.
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He wrote out a recipe for a purging diet-drink and an herbal tea to soak my feet in.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000
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He wrote out a recipe for a purging diet-drink and an herbal tea to soak my feet in.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000
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Well, good woman, go to the pantry, get your bellyful of victuals, then I 'll give you a receipt of diet-drink for your husband.
The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar
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Nature's own bird which lives on buds and diet-drink.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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The wicket closes on the candidates, and their friends adjourn to the "Retail Establishment" opposite, to _go the odd man_ and pledge their anxious companions in dissector's diet-drink -- _vulgo_, half-and-half.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various
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Physicians formerly recommended highly a diet-drink made from Oats, about which
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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On entering the faubourg St. Marceau, I saw nothing but dirty stinking streets, filthy black houses, an air of slovenliness and poverty, beggars, carters, butchers, cries of diet-drink and old hats.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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And bottle ale is a drink of Satan's, a diet-drink of Satan's devised to puff us up, and make us swell in this latter age of vanity; as the smoke of tobacco to keep us in mist and error: but the fleshly woman, which you call Ursula, is above all to be avoided, having the marks upon her of the three enemies of man -- the world, as being in the
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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