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oxymel|ˈɒksɪmɛl|
Also 4–7 oxi-, -mell.
[a. L. oxymel (also oxymeli), a. Gr. ὀξύµελι, f. ὀξύ-ς sour + µέλι honey.]
A medicinal drink or syrup compounded of vinegar and honey, sometimes with other ingredients.
oxymel of squills, oxymel made with ‘vinegar of squills’.
[c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 212 Eac sceal mon oxumellis sellan þæt bið of ecede & of huniᵹe ᵹeworht drenc suþerne.] 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. lx. [xlvi.] (MS. Bodl.) lf. 304 b/2 Oximel is iȝeue wiþ hote water to defiynge and naisschinge of hard matere and to open pores. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 189 Tempere hem wiþ oximel. c1460Play Sacram. 584 A drynke made full well wyth scamoly and wt oxymell [MS. oxennell]. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 36 Oximell is, where to one part of vyneger is put double so moche of honye, foure tymes as moche of water. 1684Earl Roscom. Ess. Transl. Verse 130 And all, goes down like Oxymel of Squils. 1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 39 Oxymels are other species of syrups made from honey and vinegar. |