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To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss. The bubble on the wine which breaks Before you lip the glass. Praed. A hand that kings Have lipped and trembled kissing. Shak.

Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.

A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.

o the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar. Cavendish.

Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live. Then on the living coals wine they pour. Dryden. Living force. See Vis viva, under Vis. -- Living gale (Naut.), a heavy gale. Living rock or stone, rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried. " I now found myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the ste…

To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine. [Cant]

To a great extent in time; during a long time. They that tarry long at the wine. Prov. xxiii. 30. When the trumpet soundeth long. Ex. xix. 13.

Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent. Lords are lordliest in their wine. Milton.

Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak. Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. Chaucer.

A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.

A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira. A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg. Shak. Madeira nut (Bot.), the European walnut; the nut of the Juglans regia.

A large wine bottle. They passed the magnum to one another freely. Sir W. Scott .

d a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.

A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc. Shak.

Malmsey wine. See Malmsey. " A jub of malvesye." Chaucer.

(Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.

A celebrated Rhine wine.

A brine or pickle containing wine and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish.

A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon. [Written also maroon.]

A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily.