Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Broth made by boiling a cock or other fowl; cockie-leekie.
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I think Sir Dudley says, that he himself cured an old Turk of the toothache by administering a few pages of 'Ovid's Metamorphoses;' and in an old receipt-book, we are directed for the cure of a double tertian fever, "to drink plentifully of cock-broth, and sleep with the Second Book of the, Iliad under the pillow."
Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845
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