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r nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare. "No inconvenient diet." Milton.

One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.

Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.

One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.

In a dietetical manner.

That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet. To suppose that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.

A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases. Dunglison.

A colorless, volatile, alkaline liquid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine.

Dietetic.

Dietetic. [R.] Ferrand.

A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.

One skilled in dietetics. [R.]

A dramatic sketch; a brief comedy.

The middle part; half; moiety. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To diet improperly.

Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation. Coxe.

soothing qualities; not drastic or irritating; not stimulating; as, a bland oil; a bland diet.