noun. A mixture of water and honey that becomes mead when fermented.

noun. A liquor consisting of honey diluted with water, fermented or unfermented: in the former case called vinous hydromel, and also mead.

noun. A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.

noun. A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water; mead prior to fermentation.

noun. honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented

"If you wish to ascertain if a woman be with child, give her hydromel to drink when she is going to sleep, and has not taken supper, and if she be seized with tormina in the belly, she is with child, but otherwise she is not pregnant."

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