meads

Noun (1)

mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)

1. (usually, alcoholic beverages) An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
   • "Just come in," said Mrs. Churchill, "and take one glass of my mead." / "No—not even such a golden promise tempts me. I am afraid that Lord Marchmont will be at home before me—and he is not yet accustomed to be kept waiting."1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 47
2. (US, usually) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

Noun (2)

mead (plural meads)

1. (poetic) A meadow.
   • And then in haste her bow'r she leaves,
     With Thestylis to bind the sheaves;
     Or if the earlier season lead
     To the tann'd haycock in the mead.1645, John Milton, L'Allegro

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