Definition of Methiglin
Me*theg"lin (?), n. [W.
meddyglyn; medd mead + llyn liquor, juice. See
Mead a drink.] A fermented beverage made of honey and
water; mead. Gay.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a spiced mead, originally from Wales
*1988: But Gwen behind the bar said: ‘Try this, mead it is called.' Reg admired the pure long high front vowel. Sack mead and sack metheglin. A scholarly man, tall and in leggings, his face a map of purple rivery veins, said: ‘Well, it's the Welsh national drink, or was. Should properly be meddyglyn, liquor being llyn and meddyg from medicus, the healer.' — Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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