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Mead

noun

United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978). Synonym: Margaret Mead.

United States philosopher of pragmatism (1863-1931). Synonym: George Herbert Mead.

Made of fermented honey and water.

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"Mead" Quotes from Famous Books

... Verlandson Of his comrades made a sport: "Sure 'tis but to guzzle mead We are gathered ...

— Ulf Van Yern - and Other Ballads • Thomas J. Wise

... not an ideal camping-ground, and Jane, whose rosy dreams of camping in Kashmir had pictured her little white canvas home set up in a flowery mead by the side of a purling brook, gazed upon the rugged slopes which rose around—the cold snow gleaming through the shaggy pine-trees—with a shiver and ...

— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne

... selected for the site of his encampment. A verdant mead, dotted with groves of leafy alamo trees, that reflect their shadows upon crystal runlets silently coursing beneath, suddenly flashing into the open light like a band of silver lace as it bisects a glade green ...

— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid

... proclaimed the closing day, While distant streams detain'd the parting ray. Then on some mossy stone we'd sit us down, And watch the changing sky and shadows brown, That swiftly glided o'er the mead below, Or in some fancied form descended slow. How oft, well pleas'd each other to adorn, We stripped the blossoms from the fragrant thorn, Or caught the violet where, in humble bed, Asham'd its own sweets it hung its head. But, oh, what rapture Mary's eyes would speak, ...

— Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2 • Thomas Moore

... the battlements of Douglas Castle as Sholto rode up to the level mead, whereon a little company of men was exercising. He could hear the words of command cried gruffly in the broad Galloway speech. Landless Jock was drilling his spearmen, and as the shining triple line of points dropped to the "ready to receive," the old knight and former captain of the ...

— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett

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