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metheglin Obs. exc. Hist. and dial.|mɪˈθɛglɪn|
Forms: 6 methglen, -eghelen, -line, -lem, 6–7 metheglen, -lyn, 7 mathiglin, metheglings, (methæglen); 6– metheglin.
[a. Welsh meddyglyn, f. meddyg healing, medicinal (ad. L. medicus) + llyn liquor.]
A spiced or medicated variety of mead, originally peculiar to Wales.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 36 Metheglyn, whiche is moste used in Wales, by reason of hotte herbes boyled with hony, is hotter than meade. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §207 (1877) 117 We have good-ale, bere, metheghelen, sydre, and pirry. 1568–70in H. Hall Soc. Eliz. Age (1887) 245 A Cupp of methglen. 1620Venner Via Recta ii. 41 If Rosemary, Hyssop, Time, Orgaine, and Sage, be first well boyled in the water, wherof you make the Metheglin, it will be the better. 1623C. Butler Fem. Mon. x. X ij, Methæglen is the more generous or stronger Hydromel, being vnto Mede as Vinum to Lora. 1633Rowley Match at Midnight ii. i, Some metheglings, the wine of Wales. 1666Pepys Diary 25 July, I drinking no wine, had metheglin for the King's own drinking. 1731P. Shaw Three Ess. Artif. Philos. 49 The Method of Brewing with Honey, for Mead, Metheglin [etc.]. 1789J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 197 The perry..is an agreeable liquor, having something of the harshness of claret wine, joined with the sweetness of metheglin. 1839J. K. Townsend Narr. Rocky Mts. v. 203 Among the rest, was some metheglen or diluted alcohol sweetened with honey. 1855T. C. Haliburton Nat. & Hum. Nat. II. ix. 267 All the friends of the new married couple..did nothing for a whole month, but smoke, drink metheglin, [etc.]. 1971J. Doxat Drinks & Drinking 152 Metheglin, old name for mead, but probably, from its derivation, from an ancient Welsh word for ‘spicey potion’.
attrib.1887G. Meredith Ballads & P. 105 Cambria's old metheglin demon Breathed against our rushing tide.
Hence meˈtheglinist nonce-wd., a brewer of metheglin.
1655Sir J. Mennis Musarum Del. 29 While there's a Cider-Man Or a Metheglenist,..I do forswear to sup Of wicked Sack. |