aquous

English

Adjective

aquous (comparative more aquous, superlative most aquous)

1. Obsolete spelling of aqueous.
   • 1624, Philip Barrough, “Of Syrupes”, in The Method of Physick, Contaning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body, from the Head to the Foote. […], the sixth edition, The VIII. Booke of Compound Medicines, London: […] Richard Field, […], “Electuarium è succo Rosarum”, page 437:

     ELectuarium è ſucco Roſarum doth draw forcibly from places farre diſtant, choler, thinne and aquous humours, very commodious and eaſie to be vſed for thoſe which be troubled with the goute, in caſe they haue not a vehement ague ℞.

   • 1658, George Starkey, Pyrotechny Aſſerted and Illuſtrated, to be the surest and safest Means for Art’s Triumph over Nature’s Infirmities. […], London: […] VVilliam VVhitwood, […], published 1696, page 107:

     This is apparent in all Broths, and Extracts of Grain or Herbs, or the Juyce of Fruits, which (the aquous part being exhaled) leave a Rob, or Extract, clammy thick, and of the Conſiſtence of Tar, although not pinguous, but viſcous and gummous.

   • 1747, Ambrose Godfrey, John Godfrey, A Curious Research into the Element of Water; Containing Many Noble and Useful Experiments on that Fluid Body. […], London: […] T. Gardner, […], page 2:

     We have one reaſon more to add for its being aquous, becauſe all bodies intrinſically abound with proper ſalts, which muſt be diſſolved and diluted: but of this, more in another place.

   • 1787, “A Concise History of Man”, in The Berwick Museum, or, Monthly Literary Intelligencer. Forming an Universal Repository of Amusement and Instruction. Being a View of the History, Politics, and Literature of the Times., volume III, Berwick: […] W. Phorson, page 213, columns 1–2:

     We ſhall conclude this hiſtory of the eye with a paſſage from the celebrated Dutch anatomiſt, Antonius Nuck concerning the aquous humour which ſuſtains the uvea tunica. This profeſſor, in an anatomical lecture at Leyden, publicly demonſtrated that the aquous fluid copiouſly flowing out of the eye of a dog, which had been wounded for the purpoſe, in ſix hours time the ball of the eye recovered from its flacid ſtate and was replete with the aquous humour, without any medicinal application; and it is the ſame with the human eye, nature having made proviſion ſpeedily to repair the loſs of this fluid, from any wound in the outermoſt coat of the eye, by the help of certain lymphatic ducts inſerted into the ball of the eye, and proceeding from glandules formed to ſeparate this water from the blood for that purpoſe.