ypocras

Noun

 * 1) Wine flavoured with spices.
 * 2) * 13??: He dranke hippocras, clarre, and vernage / Of spices hot, to increase his courage &mdash; Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale, The Canterbury Tales
 * 3) * 1593: Christopher Marlowe, I can make thee drunk with hippocras at any tavern in / Europe for nothing. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
 * 4) * 2003: At this hour of the morning she drank either ypocras or claree &mdash; Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, 2003, page