Definition of Hydromel

1. Noun. Honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented.

Generic synonyms: Beverage, Drink, Drinkable, Potable
Substance meronyms: Mead

Definition of Hydromel

1. n. A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.

Definition of Hydromel

1. a mixture of honey and water [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydromel

hydromancies
hydromancy
hydromania
hydromanias
hydromantic
hydromantie
hydromanty
hydrombobomkulite
hydromechanical
hydromechanically
hydromechanics
hydromedusa
hydromedusae
hydromel (current term)
hydromellone
hydromellonic acid
hydromels
hydromeningocele
hydrometallated
hydrometallation
hydrometallations
hydrometallurgical
hydrometallurgically
hydrometallurgy
hydrometeor
hydrometeorological
hydrometeorology
hydrometeors

Literary usage of Hydromel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"hydromel : EIGHTEEN REMEDIES^ hydromel is recommended, too, as very good for a cough : would cease to be so after undergoing fermentation. ..."

2. Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of by Forster, R. P (1818)
"For my part, the share I had taken yesterday of his hydromel had given me such a pain in my head that ..."

3. The Genuine Works of Hippocrates by Hippocrates (1849)
"hydromel rather produces expectoration, and softening of the lungs, when given diluted with water.1 But unmixed hydromel, rather than the diluted, ..."

4. Dictionary of the French and English Languages by Gabriel Surenne (1856)
"... in small quantities, suck, imbibe power to moisten Humeur, st. humour, moisture, juice, Hydrographique, adj. hydrographical hydromel, SMI. hydromel, ..."

5. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"Hydrom'ell. Same as hydromel. U. vino'sum. See hydromel ... hydromel lono. Same as Mellone. Also, a term for Cider. ..."

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