caudle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of caudle
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A drink given to the sick, consisting of ale or wine, bread, and eggs.
“Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?”
“A venerable lady, known as Great-Aunt Grantley, who had money to bequeath to the Heir, and whom Adrian called The Eighteenth Century, occupied with Hippias the back ground of the house, and shared her caudles with him.”
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noun
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A drink given to the sick, consisting of ale or wine, bread, and eggs.
“Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?”
“A venerable lady, known as Great-Aunt Grantley, who had money to bequeath to the Heir, and whom Adrian called The Eighteenth Century, occupied with Hippias the back ground of the house, and shared her caudles with him.”
verb
- (transitive)To make into caudle.
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(transitive)To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
“Will the cold brook, / Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste, / To cure thy o'ernight's surfeit?”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English caudel, from Old Northern French caudel, from Medieval Latin caldellum, diminutive of Latin caldus, calidus (“warm”).
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