Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A water reputed to cure surfeits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Water for the cure of surfeits.
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Examples
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A little cold-stilld red poppy-water, which is the true surfeit-water with ease, and abstinence from flesh, often puts an end to several distempers in the beginning, which, by too forward applications, might have been made lusty diseases.
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