n. A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water; mead prior to fermentation.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A liquor consisting of honey diluted with water, fermented or unfermented: in the former case called vinous hydromel, and also mead.
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n. honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented
Word Usage
"If you wish to ascertain if a woman be with child, give her hydromel to drink when she is going to sleep, and has not taken supper, and if she be seized with tormina in the belly, she is with child, but otherwise she is not pregnant."