单词 | mulse |
释义 | mulsen. Now archaic and historical. A drink made of honey mixed with water or wine; hydromel, mead. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > mead > [noun] meadOE mulse1541 mulse-water1574 honey wine1630 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 76 b Paulus Aegineta prayseth moche Mulse, or the water of honye. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 233 Take Mulce, which is eight times so much water as hony, boyled to a quart or three pintes. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 263 Melicrate hath the same nature as mulse. 1846 H. W. Herbert Roman Traitor II. 102 Fetch me the great goblet, the double-sextarius, of spiced mulse with a snow-water. 1884 E. Douglas Golden City in Poems Lyrical & Dramatic 39 With their oaten bread and wheaten In the new mulse steeped and eaten. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. VI. xxiii. 135 Last Rome's herdfolk..Leaned on their elbows; drinking mulse and milk, In yewen cups. CompoundsΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > mead > [noun] meadOE mulse1541 mulse-water1574 honey wine1630 1574 T. Hill Ord. Bees xxix Of the drinke of Hony which they call the Mulse-water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1541 |
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