He said he knew better, it was too sudden an attack, and too much of a shower of the metheglin falling at their feet.
He filled it with metheglin and said that the heat of the fire below, and warmth of the chimney above, would keep it from freezing.
When I went to bed, at night, after that I gave the metheglin barrel a wide berth and a good letting alone, for I had lost my relish for metheglin.
The metheglin story is once in a while, until this day, related by John S.
This Proportion of Herbs will be sufficient for twelve Gallons of Metheglin; and according to the quantity of Metheglinyou make, you must add or diminish your Herbs.
Let them boil a quarter of an hour (He letteth them boil no longer, to preserve the colour of the Metheglin pale) then scum away the herbs, scuming also the water clear.
Consider of making Metheglin thus with purified rain water (of the Æquinoxe) or Dew.
This Metheglin is a great Balsom and strengthener of the Viscera; is excellent in colds and coughs and consumptions.
Metheglin (Welsh Meddyglyn), also called hydromel and mead, was a drink as universal as it was ancient.
And here one must regret to demur to the suggested derivation of Metheglin from Matthew Glinn, who possessed a large stock of bees that he wished to turn into gain.
Like to that we drank of old - Gold is her metheglin beaker, She destruction drinks in gold.
Those that had formerly been made from honey seem to have fallen into disuse in consequence of the general taste for stronger potations; metheglin being now chiefly confined to the Welsh.
Harrison wrote:-- "The Welsh make no less account of metheglinthan the Greeks did of their ambrosia or nectar, which for the pleasantness thereof was supposed to be such as the gods themselves did delight in.
Metheglin was one of the drinks of the American colonists.
This odd custom duly complied with, a custom now quite obsolete in our cities, cake and metheglin were handed about.
A question was made at once, whether metheglin did not come under the ban.
Like to that we drank of old-- Gold is her metheglin beaker, She destruction drinks in gold.
Worlidge, in his "Vinetum Britannicum," 1676, gives us receipts for metheglin and birch wine.
He gives a receipt--the earliest I have seen in print--for making metheglin or hydromel.
This informant describes metheglin as composed of wheat and honey (of course mixed with water), and the beer as being of sufficient strength to injure the nerves and cause head-ache.
Metheglin and beer of some kind appear to be the most ancient liquors of which there are any vestiges among the Britons.
Father Cuddy derived no small comfort from the sound, for it presaged a good metheglin season; and metheglin he considered, if well manufactured, to be no bad liquor, particularly when there was no stint or usquebaugh in the brewing.
Father Cuddy derived no small comfort from the sound, for it presaged a good metheglin season, and metheglin he regarded, if well manufactured, to be no bad liquor, particularly when there was no stint of usquebaugh in the brewing.
Who drank very hard the whole night through Cups of strong mead, made from honey when new, Metheglin they called it, a mighty strong brew, Their whistles to wet for the morrow.
Great plotting and planning must have gone on before the hearths, while the passing tankards of metheglin cheered and warmed the indignant gentlemen from Maryland.
Maybe a whole horn of metheglin was passed around in true medieval fashion to "speed the parting guests.
Metheglin cans and drinking-mugs of pewter were found on nearly every table.
Metheglin and mead, drinks of the old Druids in England, were made from honey, yeast, and water, and were popular everywhere.
But after it was transferred to wooden "flackets" in Boston, these Friendship merrymakers contrived to "drinke it up under the name leackage" till but six gallons of the metheglin arrived at Plymouth.
In the middle of the centurymetheglin was worth ten shillings a barrel in the Connecticut Valley.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metheglin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
