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hydromel|ˈhaɪdrəʊmɛl|
Also 5 ydromel(le, 6 hydromell, 7 hidromel.
[a. L. hydromel, ad. Gr. ὑδρόµελι, f. ὑδρο- water + µέλι honey. With the earliest forms cf. OF. ydromelle.]
A liquor consisting of a mixture of honey and water, which when fermented is called vinous hydromel or mead.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 83 A stynkynge wounde is heelid in remeuynge awey þe stinche & þe rotenes; & þerto is myche worþ a waischinge of ydromel: þat is hony & watir soden togidere wiþ mirre. 1563T. Gale Treat. Gonneshot 2 b (Stanf.), Nitrum helpeth the Collicke if it bee taken with cummyne in hydromell. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 367 In Russia, Moscovy and Tartary, they use Mead,..this is that which the antients called hydromel. 1839E. D. Clarke Trav. Russia 18/1 The young man used to drink the Russian beverage of hydromel, a kind of mead. 1861Ld. Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 42 A fountain!—yea, but flowing deep With nectar and with hydromel. |