mead
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Etymology 1
From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-West Germanic *medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; honey wine”).
Noun
mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)
- An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 47:
- "Just come in," said Mrs. Churchill, "and take one glass of my mead." / "No—not even such a golden promise tempts me. I am afraid that Lord Marchmont will be at home before me—and he is not yet accustomed to be kept waiting."
- 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 131:
- No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.
- (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.
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alcoholic drink
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Etymology 2
From Middle English mede (“meadow”), from Old English mǣd. Cognate with West Frisian miede, Mede, German Low German Meed, Dutch made.
Noun
mead (plural meads)
- (poetic) A meadow.
- a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Dorinda”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 693:
- Farewel ye crystal streams, that pass / Thro’ fragrant meads of verdant grass:
- c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, hither, love -:
- Hither, hither, love — / ‘Tis a shady mead — / Hither, hither, love! / Let us feed and feed!
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. Moral.”, in Poems. , volume II, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, page 160:
- But any man that walks the mead, / In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, / According as his humours lead, / A meaning suited to his mind.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XXVIII, page 45:
- 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 […]
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., , →OCLC:
- 'We must overhaul that mead,' he resumed; 'this mustn't continny!'
- 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, [...].
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mead
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English mede, from Old English mǣd.
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mead
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56