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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 945 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MEAD . (I) A word now only used more or less poetically for the commoner See also:

form " meadow," properly See also:land laid down for grass and cut for See also:hay, but often extended in meaning to include pasture-land. " Meadow " represents the oblique See also:case, maedwe, of O. Eng. maid, which comes from the See also:root seen in " See also:mow "; the See also:wind, therefore, means " mowed land." Cognate words appear in other See also:Teutonic See also:languages, a See also:familiar instance being Ger. matt, seen in See also:place-names such as See also:Zermatt, Andermatt, &c. (See GRASS.) (2) The name of a drink made by the See also:fermentation of See also:honey mixed with See also:water. Alcoholic drinks made from honey were See also:common in See also:ancient times, and during the See also:middle ages throughout See also:Europe. The Greeks and See also:Romans knew of such under the names of 66p6 isXi and hydromel; mulsum was a form of mead with the addition of See also:wine. The word is common to Teutonic languages (cf. Du. mede, Ger. Met or Meth), and is cognate with Gr. Ov, wine, and Sansk. mddhu, sweet drink. " Metheglin," another word for mead, properly a medicated or spiced form of the drink, is an See also:adaptation of the Welsh meddyglyn, which is derived from meddyg, healing (See also:Lat. medicus) and llyn, liquor.

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