1892 Drinks of the world

APPLES FOR CIDER.

CIDER. THK original meaning o( the word cider^ appears to have been strong drink. It was used to designate a Hquor made of the juice of any fruit pressed, and an example of the word in this use is to be found in Wycliffe's Bible, in the speech of the angel to Zacharias (Luke i. 15), in allusion to his promised progeny : He schal not drynke wyn and syder. The next meaning is that of a liquor made from the juice of apples expressed and fermented. It is supposed by the erudite divine, Adam Clukt-;, to be prob- ably borrowed iroin the Hebrew word "^9^, Greek acKepa, which, a. cording to St. Jerome {B.pht. ad Nef^otianum devita Clcricorinn, ct in Jsai. xxvii. 1), means any mtoxicating hquor, wliethcr of" honL7, com, appl -Sj dates, or other fruits. ^