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Webster 1913 Edition
Mead
Mead
(mēd)
, Noun.
[OE.
mede
, AS. meodo
; akin to D. mede
, G. met
, meth
, OHG. metu
, mitu
, Icel. mjöðr
, Dan. miöd
, Sw. mjöd
, Russ. med’
, Lith. midus
, W. medd
, Gr. μέθυ
wine, Skr. madhu
honey, a sweet drink, as adj., sweet. √270. Cf. Metheglin
.] 1.
A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel.
Chaucer.
2.
A drink composed of sirup of sarsaparilla or other flavoring extract, and water. It is sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.
[U. S.]
Mead
,Noun.
[AS.
mǣd
. See Meadow
.] A meadow.
A
All full of freshe flowers, white and reede.
mede
All full of freshe flowers, white and reede.
Chaucer.
To fertile vales and dewy
My weary, wandering steps he leads.
meads
My weary, wandering steps he leads.
Addison.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mead
MEAD
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Mead
mead
mead
English
Noun
mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)
- An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
- (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.
Alternative forms
- meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)
Translations
alcoholic drink
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Derived terms
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Etymology 2
From Old English mǣd. Cognate with West Frisian miede, German Low German Meed, Mede.
Noun
mead (plural meads)
- (poetic) A meadow.
- 1848, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 28:
- Four voices of four hamlets round, / From far and near, on mead and moor, / Swell out and fail, as if a door / Were shut between me and the sound [...].
- 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:
- There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].
- 1848, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 28:
Anagrams
Spanish
Verb
mead
Yola
Etymology
From Old English mǣd.
Noun
mead
References
- J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)