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oxymels

oxymels is the plural of oxymel.

Meaning of oxymel

Noun

oxymel (plural oxymels)

  1. (historical) A mixture of honey, water, and vinegar, boiled to a syrup, sometimes mixed with herbs or spices.
    • If it long continue, vomits may be taken after meat, or otherwise gently procured with warm water, oxymel, etc., now and then.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Questions about oxymels

What is oxymels the plural of?
Oxymels is the plural of oxymel.

Words near oxymels in the dictionary

  1. oxyluciferins
  2. oxyluminescence
  3. oxyluminescent
  4. oxymatrine
  5. oxymel
  6. oxymels
  7. oxymercuration
  8. oxymercurations
  9. oxymesterone
  10. oxymetazoline
  11. oxymeter

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