Caudle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A warm drink consisting of wine or ale mixed with sugar, eggs, bread, and various spices, sometimes given to ill persons.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A hot drink given to the sick, consisting of wine or ale, eggs, and bread.
  • v. To make into caudle.
  • v. To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.
  • v. To make into caudle.
  • v. Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of warm drink made of wine or ale mixed with bread, sugar, and spices, and sometimes eggs, given to sick persons, to a woman in childbed, and her visitors.
  • To make into caudle.
  • To serve as a caudle for; refresh, comfort, or make warm, as with caudle.
  • Word Usage
    "And when he would have cuddled and kissed her, and done his proper duty as a husband, and so earned his "caudle", (*) she turned herself first on one side and then on the other, so that he could not attain his purpose, at which he was greatly astonished and angry, and said to her,"
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    Words with the same meaning
    refresh    posset   
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    caudal    dawdle   
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