cock-broth
Also in Sc. -broo, -bree.
[see broth, broo, bree.]
The broth of a boiled cock.
| 1601 Holland Pliny II. 384 If the body bee bound or costiue, a Cocke-broth causeth it to be soluble. a 1652 Brome Eng. Moor i. iii. Wks. 1873 II. 16 Ile..restore thee 'gain with Cawdels and Cock-broths. 1715 Vanbrugh Country-house ii. i, My mother desires that we may have some cock-broth to drink two or three times a day between meals, for my sister and I are sick folks. 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 105, I took him into the pantry And gave him some good cock-broo. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's iii, ‘Some judgment in cock-bree or in scate-rumples.’ |