[L. liquāmen a liquid mixture, f. liquāre: see LIQUATE v.] † a. A substance reduced to a liquid state. Also, the name of a kind of fish-sauce used by the ancient Romans; garum. Obs.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., III. 827. And make liquamen castimoniall Of peres thus.
1672. Phil. Trans., VII. 5059. That Liquamen or softer pulp (which I took to be Bees-meat). Ibid. (1770), LXI. 343. I mixed … six drams of the putrid liquamen, with … this liquor.
1806. A. Hunter, Culina (ed. 3), 80. The Romans had a raw salad … made savoury with liquamen, oil, and vinegar. The liquamen was something like our anchovy liquor, but much stronger.
b. ‘A fluid for administering medicine’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1889).
