Definition of "mead"

"Just come in," said Mrs. Churchill, "and take one glass of my mead." / "No—not even such a golden promise tempts me. I am afraid that Lord Marchmont will be at home before me—and he is not yet accustomed to be kept waiting."

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 47

No one, then or now, wanted to drink the mead that came out of Odin's arse.

2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 131

Farewel ye crystal streams, that pass / Thro’ fragrant meads of verdant grass:

a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Dorinda”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 693

Hither, hither, love — / ‘Tis a shady mead — / Hither, hither, love! / Let us feed and feed!

c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, hither, love -

But any man that walks the mead, / In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find, / According as his humours lead, / A meaning suited to his mind.

1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. Moral.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], page 160

Four voices of four hamlets round, / From far and near, on mead and moor, / Swell out and fail, as if a door / Were shut between me and the sound […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XXVIII, page 45

'We must overhaul that mead,' he resumed; 'this mustn't continny!'

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […]

There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].

1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath