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Metheglin   Listen
noun
Metheglin  n.  A fermented beverage made of honey and water; mead.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Metheglin" Quotes from Famous Books



... Medo in Anglo-Saxon, in Lithuanian Middus, in Polish Miod, in Russian Med, in German Meth, in old English Metheglin: perhaps all these are from the Greek verb [Greek: methuo], to intoxicate. Alfred naturally observes, that these drinking-bouts produced many frays; and notices the reason of the Estum or Esthonians brewing no ale, because they had abundance ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr

... washings, butchering, raisings, shearings and on many occasions. Some was always on the sideboard and often on the table. In most households there were sideboards well furnished with spirits, brandy, homemade wine, metheglin, etc., which were offered to guests. It was a fashion or custom to offer a drink of some ...
— Quaker Hill - A Sociological Study • Warren H. Wilson

... in items of barrels of rum and cider and metheglin, of bowls of flip and punch and toddy, of boxes of lemons and loaves of sugar, in punches, and sometimes broken punchbowls, and in one case a large amount of Malaga and Canary wine, spices and "ross water," from which was brewed doubtless an appetizing ordination-cup which may ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle



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