The Devil's Dictionary: Rice-water
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
RICE-WATER
-n.
A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp.
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