ˈdiet-drink
[f. diet n.1 + drink.]
A drink prescribed and prepared for medicinal purposes.
| 1600 Rowlands Let. Humours Blood vi. 76 We gaue the Brewers Diet-drinke a wipe. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 317 As for the diet drink made of cow milk..I have written already in my treatise of herbs. 1693 Oliver in Phil. Trans. XVII. 909 A pleasant..soft Water..which the Country People use in Fevers as their ordinary Diet-drink. 1744 Berkeley Siris §9 The leaves and tender tops of pine and fir are..used for diet drinks. 1844–57 G. Bird Urin. Deposits 455 The host of apozems, diuretic decoctions, and diet-drinks, in which renal stimulants abound. 1854–67 C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol. 214 Diet Drink, a decoction of sarsaparilla and mezereon. The Lisbon diet drink, or compound decoction of sarsaparilla, which it resembles, is the most celebrated. |