Mead

Word MEAD
Character 4
Hyphenation mead
Pronunciations /miːd/

Definitions and meanings of "Mead"

What do we mean by mead?

A meadow. noun

An alcoholic beverage made from fermented honey and water. noun

A strong liquor made by mixing honey with water and flavoring it, yeast or some similar ferment being added, and the whole allowed to ferment. noun

A sweet drink charged with carbonic gas, and flavored with some syrup, as sarsaparilla. noun

Same as meadow: now chiefly used in poetry. noun

A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel. noun

A drink composed of sirup of sarsaparilla or other flavoring extract, and water. It is sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas. noun

A meadow. noun

An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water noun

A meadow. noun

United States philosopher of pragmatism (1863-1931) noun

Made of fermented honey and water noun

United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978) noun

An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.

A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

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The word "mead" in example sentences

"_Now up the mead, now down the mead_," and then over hill and dale they sped. ❋ Alf Burnett (N/A)

“Beowulf” was first committed to parchment around the year 1000, up to then it had only existed as a oral poem recited to friends, families and subjects over fires, in mead halls, and by bards to many people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If we create a dystopia, it is so that our heroes can set it to rights, and drink mead from the skull of the vanquished oppressor. ❋ Zornhau (2007)

“No matter,” said the old man, who was deep in his cups, having drunk the liquor of the region — a vile substance they call mead, yet it is potent — “you are still a brave man to face the wendol.” ❋ Crichton, Michael, 1942- (1976)

A by product of honey, called mead, is reported to be the oldest alcoholic beverage known to man. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Personally, I'll stay with mead, which is honeywine. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Germany and the Slavic countries were leading producers in the meantime, and honey wine or mead from the Sanskrit word for “honey” was a great favorite in both central Europe and Scandinavia. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

The dreadful foul drink called mead is made from honey, then fermented. ❋ Crichton, Michael, 1942- (1976)

There is a kind of swish-swash made also in Essex, and divers other places, with honeycombs and water, which the homely country wives, putting some pepper and a little other spice among, call mead, very good in mine opinion for such as love to be loose bodied at large, or a little eased of the cough. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)

Our forefathers concocted from Honey boiled with water and exposed to the sun (after adding chopped raisins, lemon peel, and other matters) a famous fermented drink, called mead, and this was termed metheglin (_methu_, wine, and _aglaion_, splendid) when the finer [261] Honey was used, and certain herbs were added so as to confer special flavours. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

There is a kind of swish-swash made also in Essex, and divers other places, with honeycombhs and water, which the homely country wives, putting some pepper and a little other spice among, call mead, very good in mine opinion for such as love to be loose bodied at large, or a little eased of the cough. ❋ Unknown (1909)

We have sparkling distilled mead, which is universally praised. ❋ Owen Morgan Edwards (1889)

The usual drink was mead, that is to say, fermented honey, or ale brewed from malt alone, as hops were not introduced till many centuries later. ❋ Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1865)

I don't find it likely for 'mead' to develop into 'honey'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You never bothered reading Douglas/Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, p.271 under *mélit: "... while OIr mil gen. melo is an i-stem, analogically refashioned after the u-stem 'mead'." ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's also where you will find Meade's Café and a tavern called Tavern Meade where you can order a plate of barbequed short ribs, a draft Guinness, quaff a fermented honey wine called "mead," and then, as they say, get a room. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

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