a medicinal drink, composed of wine, with spices and other ingredients infused therein; much used among the French by way of a cordial dram after meals.

There are various kinds of hippocras, according to the kind of wine and the other additional ingredients made use of; as white hippocras, red hippocras, claret hippocras, strawberry hippocras, hippocras without wine, cider hippocras, &c.

That directed in the late London Dispensary, is to be made of cloves, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmegs, beat and infused in canary with sugar; to the infusion, milk, a lemon, and some slips of rosemary, are to be put, and the whole strained through a flannel. It is recommended as a cordial, and as good in paralytic and all nervous cases.