alicant

English

Alternative forms

• alligant

Noun

alicant (countable and uncountable, plural alicants)

1. A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed, said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.
   • 1626 February 1 (licensing date), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     he used nothing but butter'd beer, coloured with Alligant, for all kinds of maladies

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , New York, 2001, p.223:

     All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]

Translations

a kind of wine made near Alicante, Spain

• Polish: alikant m
• Portuguese: alicante m

References

“alicant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• actinal, antical