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To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. B. Edwards.

Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.

Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.

Spirituous liquor. [Scot.] Burns.

To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with. "When I sugar my liquor." G. Eliot.

Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.

A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip. Tom Thumb had got a little sup. Drayton.

Good liquor, of which not enough is left to wet one's nail. Grose.

An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.

A person who follows an army, and sells to the troops provisions, liquors, and the like.

Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need. Fuller.…

nds covered with tan. Tan bed (Hort.), a bed made of tan; a bark bed. -- Tan pickle, the liquor used in tanning leather. -- Tan spud, a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees. -- Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark. -- Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.

A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.

A house where liquors are retailed.

Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] The taplash of strong ale and wine. Taylor (1630).

A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom. The ambassador was put one night into a miserable taproom, full of soldiers smoking. Macaulay.

One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.

and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

rth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.