treacle water (treʻklwater)

A compound cordial, distilled with a spirituous menstruum from any cordial and sudorific drugs and herbs, with a mixture of Venice treacle, or theriac. To make treacle - water , good in surfeits, . - Take the husks of green-walnuts, four handfuls; of the juice of rue, carduus, marigolds, and balm, of each a pint; green per as it is roots, one pound; angelica and masterwort, of each half a pound; the leaves of scordium four handfuls; old Venice-treacle and mithridate, of each eight ounces; six quarts of canary; of vinegar three quarts, and of lime juice one quart: which being two days digested in a bath in a close ve el, distill them in sand. The Closet of Rarities (1706). ( Nares .) treacle-wormseed (trē'kl-wėrm"sēd), n. Same as treacle - mustard. treacline (trē ́kli-nes), n. Resemblance to treacle; viscosity. [Rare.] The property of viscosity or treacly ne po e ed more or le by all fluids is the general influence conducive to steadine . Nature, XXX. 89.