† mulse Obs.
Also 7 mulce.
[ad. L. mulsum, neut. pa. pple. of mulcēre to sweeten.]
A liquor made of honey mixed with water or wine; hydromel, mead. Also mulse-water.
| 1533 Elyot Cast. Helth (1541) 76 b, Paulus Aegineta prayseth moche Mulse, or the water of honye. 1574 T. Hill Ord. Bees xxix, Of the drinke of Hony which they call the Mulse-water. 1622 Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 233 Take Mulce, which is eight times so much water as hony, boyled to a quart or three pintes. 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 263 Melicrate hath the same nature as mulse. |