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Hydromel

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





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"Hydromel" Quotes from Famous Books



... exclusively in bedecking themselves and in making or receiving calls. It is not the same with the women of the people. They have many labors to perform, and are the ones who manipulate the grains, hydromel and beer, and grind pepper in the matt-biett. This latter operation is very painful, and so they take the precaution to first close the nostrils with plugs of cotton. Women who have children of a tender age go at these operations with their progeniture upon the back, after the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 • Various
... name he does not explain. I take it to be acaan, past participle of actal, to erect, and tun, stone. But it may have another meaning. The word acan meant wine, or rather, mead, the intoxicating hydromel the natives manufactured. The god of this drink also bore the name Acan ("ACAN; el Dios del vino que es Baco," Diccionario del Convento de Motul, MS.). It would be quite appropriate for the Bacabs to be gods ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton


Words linked to "Hydromel" :   mead, drink, drinkable, potable, beverage


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