caudle

From Old Northern French caudel, from Medieval Latin caldellum, diminutive of Latin caldum, caldus (“warm”).

caudle (plural caudles)

1. A hot drink given to the sick, consisting of wine or ale, eggs, and bread.

• posset

caudle (third-person singular simple present caudles, present participle caudling, simple past and past participle caudled)

1. (transitive) To make into caudle.
2. (transitive) To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.
   • c. 1605–1606, Shakespeare, William, Timon of Athens, act 4, scene 3, lines 226–228:

     Will the cold brook, / Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste, / To cure thy o'ernight's surfeit?

• Claude, DeLuca, Deluca, cedula