Obs. Also -aco, -ico. [According to Steevens, from a village so called near Lisbon.] A kind of wine.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., II. iii. 63. Here’s a Cuppe of Charneco.
1594. First Pt. Contention (1843), 29. There wanted neither sherry, sack nor charnaco.
1600. Rowlands, Lett. Humours Blood, vi. 79. The vertue of three cuppes of Charnico.
1616. Beaum. & Fl., Wit without M., II. 152 (1639), C 3 d. Where no old Charnico is.
1631. Heywood, Maid of West, III. Wks. 1874, II. 301. What wine will you drink?… Canary or Charnico?
[1775. Ash, Charneco (a cant word), any kind of strong liquor which is like to bring drunken fellows to the stocks.]
