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单词 hydromel
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hydromeln.

/ˈhʌɪdrəʊmɛl/
Forms: Also Middle English ydromel(le, 1500s hydromell, 1600s hidromel.
Etymology: < Latin hydromel, < Greek ὑδρόμελι, < ὑδρο- water + μέλι honey. With the earliest forms compare Old French ydromelle.
A liquor consisting of a mixture of honey and water, which when fermented is called vinous hydromel or mead.
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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.
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