noun. A warm drink consisting of wine or ale mixed with sugar, eggs, bread, and various spices, sometimes given to ill persons.

noun. A kind of warm drink made of wine or ale mixed with bread, sugar, and spices, and sometimes eggs, given to sick persons, to a woman in childbed, and her visitors.

To make into caudle.

To serve as a caudle for; refresh, comfort, or make warm, as with caudle.

noun. A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.

transitive verb. To make into caudle.

transitive verb. Too serve as a caudle to; to refresh.

noun. A hot drink given to the sick, consisting of wine or ale, eggs, and bread.

verb. To make into caudle.

verb. To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.

"And when he would have cuddled and kissed her, and done his proper duty as a husband, and so earned his "caudle", (*) she turned herself first on one side and then on the other, so that he could not attain his purpose, at which he was greatly astonished and angry, and said to her,"

hempen caudle  

caudal  dawdle  

applesauce  bouillabaisse  bread-and-milk  bringing-up  confin  

posset  refresh