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

Moderately warm; not hot; tepid. -- Luke"ness, n. [Obs.] Nine penn'orth o'brandy and water luke. Dickens.

Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy. "Our old wine neat." Chapman.

A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc.

Cider brandy. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added. To rectify a globe, to adjust it in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.

to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of FRench brandy.

A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon. Swift.

spicion; a suggestion; hence, a very small portion; a taste; as, coffee with a soupçon of brandy; a soupçon of coquetry.

Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.

To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.

Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. "Sipping his tiff of brandy punch." Sir W. Scott.

A beverage made of brandy and gin. [Slang]

A liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices. Brande & C.