hydromel

[ hahy-druh-mel ]

noun
  1. a liquor consisting of honey and water that, when fermented, becomes mead.

Origin of hydromel

1
1555–65; <Latin <Greek hydrómeli, equivalent to hydro-hydro-1 + méli honey; replacing late Middle English ydromel<Medieval Latin (variant of hydromel)

Words Nearby hydromel

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How to use hydromel in a sentence

  • He knows the smell of the hydromel As if two and two were five; And hides it away for a year and a day In his own hexagonal hive.

    Songs from Vagabondia | Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey
  • With the leaves of the latter they make a decoction which, mixed with hydromel, is an antidote for intermittent fevers.

  • The slaves carried baskets with cakes, roast meats and jars of hydromel.

    The Tour | Louis Couperus
  • Metheglin (Welsh Meddyglyn), also called hydromel and mead, was a drink as universal as it was ancient.

  • He gives a receipt—the earliest I have seen in print—for making metheglin or hydromel.

British Dictionary definitions for hydromel

hydromel

/ (ˈhaɪdrəʊˌmɛl) /


noun
  1. archaic another word for mead 1

Origin of hydromel

1
C15: from Latin, from Greek hudromeli, from hydro- + meli honey

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