diet sb. (1 the orig. sense etymologically, but ‘daily food’ is the earliest sense in English)
1.
course of life
R3 I. i. 139
“an evil diet.”
2.
prescribed course of
food, regimen
Tim. IV. iii. 87
“the tub-fast and the
”
; phr. “take or keep
”
Gent. II. i. 26, Meas. II. i. 120.
3.
food, fare, victuals,
board
Tw.N. III. iii. 40
“I will bespeak our
,”
1H4 III. iii. 84
“You owe money . . . for
your and
by-drinkings,”
Ham. I. i. 99*,
Oth. III. iii. 15
“nice and waterish
diet.”
