• enPR: mēd, IPA: /miːd/

mead (uncountable)

1. An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
2. (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

• French: hydromel, chouchen
• German: Met
• Italian: idromele
• Portuguese: hidromel
• Russian: мёд (пи́тный)
• Spanish: aguamiel, hidromiel

• bragget

mead (plural meads)

1. (poetic) A meadow.
   • a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Dorinda”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, volume I, Second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 693:

     Farewel ye crystal streams, that pass
     Thro’ fragrant meads of verdant grass:

   • circa 1817 John Keats, [https://books.google.co.in/books?id=bN8Fdp9kuTkC&pg=PT89&dq=bespread+(Keats)&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQ6pjIqK_jAhVPmI8KHXWlA6YQ6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=bespread%20(Keats)&f=false Hither, Hither, Love]:

     Hither, hither, love —

     ‘Tis a shady mead —

     Hither, hither, love!

     Let us feed and feed!

   • 1848, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 28:

     Four voices of four hamlets round, / From far and near, on mead and moor, / Swell out and fail, as if a door / Were shut between me and the sound [...].

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles:

     'We must overhaul that mead,' he resumed; 'this mustn't continny!'

   • 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:

     There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].

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