Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sweet wine.
- noun Wine sweetened artificially.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Wine boiled and mingled with honey.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Wine boiled and mixed withhoney .
Etymologies
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Latin mulsum (sc. vinum), from mulsus mixed with honey, honey-sweet, past participle of mulcere to sweeten, soften.
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Examples
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Ho! Agathon, my boy, fetch me the great goblet, the double (9) sextarius, of spiced mulse with a snow-water. "
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832
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