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-- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are essentially basement restaurants where liquors are served.

. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

ngregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the…

That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic. Quincy.

Any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be very deleterious. [Slang]

A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scumming of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor. Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.] -- Rum shrub, a drink…

One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.

ve long ago run out. Dryden. -- To run over. (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs over. (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily. (c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child. -- To run riot, to go to excess. -- To run through. (a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book. (b) T…

stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.

A spirituous liquor distilled by the Chinese from the yeasty liquor in which boiled rice has fermented under pressure. S. W. Williams.

To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.

ing of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.

A low public house; especially, a place where spirits and other excisable liquors are illegally and privately sold. [Ireland]

To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like. To shorten a rope (Naut.), to take in the slack of it. -- To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in.

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

Cautious; wary; suspicious. I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines. Boyle. Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of thier successors. Sir H. Wotton. To fight shy. See under Fight, v. i.

To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil. I simmer as liquor doth on the fire before it beginneth to boil. Palsgrave.

To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. [Poetic] They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers. Dryden.

To serve or draw liquor. [Obs.]