What is "meads"

Usage examples of "meads".

But the Entwives gave their minds to the lesser trees, and to the meads in the sunshine beyond the feet of the forests.

The land was green: in the wet meads and along the grassy borders of the stream grew many willow-trees.

Looking west they could see, below them in a haze of light, lowlands and broad meads, and glinting far off in the westering sun the wide waters of the Anduin.

Wide flats lay on either bank, shadowy meads filled with pale white flowers.

Through this they passed, and Sam saw that they were on a narrow path that gleamed faintly at first, as the main road did, until climbing above the meads of deadly flowers it faded and went dark, winding its crooked way up into the northern sides of the valley.

Out of it came a stench, not the sickly odour of decay in the meads of Morgul, but a foul reek, as if filth unnameable were piled and hoarded in the dark within.

South of Nan-tathren was a region of meads filled with many flowers, where few folk dwelt.

And when the wind was in the west, it seemed to many that it was filled with a fragrance, fleeting but sweet, heart-stirring, as of flowers that bloom for ever in undying meads and have no names on mortal shores.

Therefore leaving the house of Aulë and the flowering meads of Valinor she would come at times and heal the hurts of Melkor.