21 examples of metheglin in sentences

Also, against the colic, which was ravishing the country, the cook prepared a metheglin as Lady Stuart mixed it"nettles, fennel and grumel seeds, of each two ounces being small-cut and mixed with honey and boiled together."

For honey sells well, and we ourselves can make shift with a drop o' small mead and metheglin for common use from the comb-washings.

To make Metheglin.

To make Metheglin To make a sallet of smelts To roast a Fillet Beefe To make a sallet of a cold Hen or Capon.

E. Mead was called Medo in Anglo-Saxon, in Lithuanian Middus, in Polish Miod, in Russian Méd, in German Meth, in old English Metheglin: perhaps all these are from the Greek verb [Greek: methuo], to intoxicate.

But I take it, that Ariel was fond of metheglin, of which the Bees are notorious Brewers.

Cards were much the mode of the day, and an hour or more was given to them; then as the metheglin (a delicious beverage made of honey) and the mulled wine was passed, the younger portion of the company began moving through the suite of three rooms, breaking up into small groups as they did so.

He is evidently not a good hater even of "priests and kings, and aristocrats, and superstition;" or perhaps he worked all that froth safely over and off in debating-club speeches and leading articles, and left us, in these poems, the genuine metheglin of his inner heart, sweet, clear, and strong; for there is no form of lovable or right thing which this man has come across, which he does not seem to have appreciated.

Taste there Milford oysters, marrow-puddings, cock-ale, metheglin, white and red-muggets, elvers, sherry, sack (which, with sugar, is called Bristol milk,) and some other wines, which, perhaps you will not drink so good at London.

The only love scene, as far as we can recollect, in Madoc, consists of the delicate attentions which a savage, who has drunk too much of the Prince's excellent metheglin, offers to Goervyl.

Father Cuddy derived no small comfort from the sound, for it presaged a good metheglin season; and metheglin he considered, if well manufactured, to be no bad liquor, particularly when there was no stint or usquebaugh in the brewing.

Father Cuddy derived no small comfort from the sound, for it presaged a good metheglin season; and metheglin he considered, if well manufactured, to be no bad liquor, particularly when there was no stint or usquebaugh in the brewing.

It used to be the custom with the prince, when he had gained a battle, to call for the horn, filled with metheglin, or mead, and drink the contents at one draught, then sound it to show that there was no deception; each of his officers following his example.

At the better houses there was metheglin or small beer, cider, cheese, and biscuits.

Do you only take a cup of it now and then by yourself, and then come down to your parson, and boast of it, as if it was pure old metheglin?

He gives a receiptthe earliest I have seen in printfor making metheglin or hydromel.

" Metheglin and beer of some kind appear to be the most ancient liquors of which there are any vestiges among the Britons.

This informant describes metheglin as composed of wheat and honey (of course mixed with water), and the beer as being of sufficient strength to injure the nerves and cause head-ache.

Worlidge, in his "Vinetum Britannicum," 1676, gives us receipts for metheglin and birch wine.

He loved old fashions; wore knee-breeches, and silver buckles in his shoes; brewed metheglin in his closet, and drank it from silver-pegged flagons; and kept diet bread on a salver to offer his visitors.

Meed is likewise lost by homophony with 1 mead = meadow and 2 mead = metheglin: and it is a very serious loss.

21 examples of  metheglin  in sentences