metheglin

[ muh-theg-lin ]

noun

1. a variety of spiced mead.

metheglin

/ məˈθɛɡlɪn /

noun

1. (esp formerly) spiced or medicated mead

Word History and Origins

Origin of metheglin¹

1525–35; < Welsh meddyglyn, equivalent to meddyg healing (< Latin medicus; medical ) + llyn liquor

Word History and Origins

Origin of metheglin¹

C16: from Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg healer (from Latin medicus medical ) + llyn liquor

Example Sentences

In some houses it very nearly resembled the good metheglin, very common in the northern counties of England.

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Presently servants came in and set wine before them—honey-mead and Danish beer, and metheglin and sweet cakes.

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Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine.

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The older the honey is, the whiter coloured the Metheglin will be.

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Honey similarly treated affords the metheglin so much prized by our ancestors.

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