Also in Sc. -broo, -bree. [see BROTH, BROO, BREE.] The broth of a boiled cock.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 384. If the body bee bound or costiue, a Cocke-broth causeth it to be soluble.

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a. 1652.  Brome, Eng. Moor, I. iii. Wks. 1873, II. 16. Ile … restore thee ’gain with Cawdels and Cock-broths.

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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.

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1724.  Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), I. 105. I took him into the pantry And gave him some good cock-broo.

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1824.  Scott, St. Ronan’s, iii. ‘Some judgment in cock-bree or in scate-rumples.’

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