alicant

English

Noun

alicant (countable and uncountable, plural alicants)

1. A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed, said to have been made near Alicante in Spain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Fletcher to this entry?)

   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:

     , 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

• Portuguese: alicante m

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for alicant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• actinal, antical