a part of our ordinary food in a liquid form, serving to dilute and moisten the dry meat.

The drinks in different countries are different. The common drink in England is either water, malt liquor, wine, or mixtures of these.

The first drinks of mankind were certainly water and milk, but the love of luxury and debauchery soon introduced the art of preparing intoxicating and inebriating drinks out of vegetables. The vine gave the first of these liquors; after this, wheat, barley, millet, oats, rice, apples, pears, and pomegranates; and after those the juices drained from the pine, fycanore, and mapple, were brought to this use: in latter times, roots, berries, and the pith of the sugar-cane, have been employed for the same purposes.