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Of or pertaining to wine; as, vinic alcohol.

The conversion of a fruit juice or other saccharine solution into alcohol by fermentation.

), having an acid taste. See Illust. (a) of Shamrock. -- Wood spirit. (Chem.) See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl. -- Wood stamp, a carved or engraved block or stamp of wood, for impressing figures or colors on fabrics. -- Wood star (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small South American humming birds belonging to…

H4.CH2, derived respectively from the three xylenes. Often used adjectively; as, xylylene alcohol.

A glutinous substance, insoluble in alcohol, resembling legumin; -- now called vegetable fibrin, vegetable albumin, or gluten casein.