Mastic
. A tonic which promotes appetite, and therefore only increases the misery of a hungry man.
“Like the starved wretch that hungry mastic chews,
But cheats himself and fosters his disease.”
West: Triumphs of the Gout (Luoian).
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.