The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hippocras \Hip"po*cras\, n. [F. hippocras, hypocras, NL. vinum hippocraticum, lit., wine of Hippocrates.] A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.
Wiktionary
n. A cordial, made from a spiced wine mixed with sugar and spices, usually including cinnamon, which were strained out by a cloth before the drink was consumed.
Wikipedia
Hippocras , sometimes spelled hipocras or hypocras, is a drink made from wine mixed with sugar and spices, usually including cinnamon, and possibly heated. After steeping the spices in the sweetened wine for a day, the spices are strained out through a conical cloth filter bag called a manicum hippocraticum or Hippocratic sleeve (originally devised by the 5th century BC Greek physician Hippocrates to filter water). This is the origin of the name hippocras.
Usage examples of "hippocras".
Fair goblets stood on the board brimmed with dark sweet Thramnian wine, one for each feaster there, and cold bacon pies and botargoes and craw-fish in hippocras sauce furnished a light midnight meal.
He dranke hippocras, clarre, and vernage Of spices hot, to increase his courage.