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metheglin

[ muh-theg-lin ]

noun

  1. a variety of spiced mead.


metheglin

/ məˈθɛɡlɪn /

noun

  1. (esp formerly) spiced or medicated mead
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of metheglin1

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

Origin of metheglin1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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