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metheglin

/muh-theg-lin/US // məˈθɛg lɪn //UK // (məˈθɛɡlɪn) //

玄武岩,玄武门,玄武湖,玄武区

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a variety of spiced mead.

Examples

  • 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.