mead
nounnounattested in dialogue
- //miːd//
An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
noun
- 1
An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
"Just come in," said Mrs. Churchill, "and take one glass of my mead." / "No—not even such a golden promise tempts me. I am afraid that Lord Marchmont will be at home before me—and he is not yet accustomed to be kept waiting."
No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.
- 2
A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.
Etymology
From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-West Germanic *medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu) (whence English methyl), Lithuanian medùs, Old Church Slavonic медъ (medŭ, “honey”), Persian می (mey), Sanskrit मधु (mádhu), Welsh medd, Finnish mesi, Chinese 蜜 (mì).
noun
- 1
A meadow.
And then in haste her bow'r she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead.
Farewel ye crystal streams, that pass Thro’ fragrant meads of verdant grass:
Hither, hither, love — ‘Tis a shady mead — Hither, hither, love! Let us feed and feed!
But any man that walks the mead, In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, According as his humours lead, A meaning suited to his mind.
Etymology
From Middle English mede (“meadow”), from Old English mǣd. Cognate with West Frisian miede, Mede, German Low German Meed, Dutch made.
Forms
- plural
- meads
mead · An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
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