mead

• The honey which they collect is chiefly used by themselves in making a strong intoxicating liquor, much the same as the mead which is produced from honey in Great Britain. —  Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
• A kind of mead, not very potent, however, is made by them of millet, honey, and water, and is decidedly a superior beverage to The one called kuas , whereby the Russie lives, Small ware, water-like, but somewhat tart in taste This mead is the liquor principally drunk at feasts, and of this formerly were oblations poured out to the gods. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of Schamyl, by J. Milton Mackie.
• A kind of mead, not very potent, however, is made by them of millet, honey, and water, and is decidedly a superior beverage to The one called kuas_, whereby the Russie lives Small ware, water-like, but somewhat tart in taste This mead is the liquor principally drunk at feasts, and of this formerly were oblations poured out to the gods. —  Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
• Professor Fair-mead was the victim. —  The Scarlet Plague
• He sent his sister a Christmas present, consisting of a honey-cake, mead, and a roast capon, accompanied by the following letter: "The mead is the blood of Christ, the honey-cake and the capon are His body, which for our salvation was baked and pierced at the Cross. —  The Evolution of Love

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