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Webster 1913 Edition


Metheglin

Me-theg′lin

,
Noun.
[W.
meddyglyn
;
medd
mead +
llyn
liquor, juice. See
Mead
a drink.]
A fermented beverage made of honey and water; mead.
Gay.

Webster 1828 Edition


Metheglin

METHEG'LIN

,
Noun.
A liquor made of honey and water boiled and fermented, often enriched with spices.

Definition 2024


metheglin

metheglin

English

Noun

metheglin (plural metheglins)

  1. A spiced mead, originally from Wales.
    • 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
      But Gwen behind the bar said: ‘Try this, mead it is called.’ Reg admired the pure long high front vowel. Sack mead and sack metheglin. A scholarly man, tall and in leggings, his face a map of purple rivery veins, said: ‘Well, it’s the Welsh national drink, or was. Should properly be meddyglyn, liquor being llyn and meddyg from medicus, the healer'.