单词 | hydromel |
释义 | hydromeln. A liquor consisting of a mixture of honey and water, which when fermented is called vinous hydromel or mead. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > water > [noun] > honey and water hydromelc1400 honey water1525 melicrate1568 c1400 Lanfranc'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. 1563 T. Gale Treat. Gonneshot 2 b Nitrum helpeth the Collicke if it bee taken with cummyne in hydromell. 1650 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. (ed. 2) lv. 71 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) In Russia, Muscovie, and Tartary they use mead,..this is that which the ancients calld Hydromel. 1810 E. D. Clarke Trav. Var. Countries: Pt. 1st iv. 50 The young man used to drink the Russian beverage of hydromel, a kind of mead. 1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 42 A fountain!—yea, but flowing deep With nectar and with hydromel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1400 |
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