he drinks water, and lives on wort leaves, pulse, like a hogg, or scraps like a dog ….
1845, Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Works:
It is an excellent pleasure to be able to take pleasure in worts and water, in bread and onions, for then a man can never want pleasure when it is so ready for him, that nature hath spread it over all its provisions.
Any of various plants or herbs. (non-gloss definition)
puhekieltä Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer.