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

A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple. Mortimer.

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

A strong drink; cider. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Cider. [Obs.]

A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth. [Written also syllabub.]

Cider. See Sicer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider. [Colloq.]

sed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett.

nsive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.

e plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. Tasmanain cider tree. (Bot.) See the Note under Eucalyptus. -- Tasmanain devil. (Zoöl.) See under Devil. -- Tasmanain wolf (Zoöl.), a savage carnivorous marsupial; -- called also zebra wolf. See Zebra wolf, under Wolf.

To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.

A prolific sort of apple, good for cider. [Obs.] Mortimer.

ained by the spontaneous (acetous) fermentation, or by the artificial oxidation, of wine, cider, beer, or the like.

Wine fly (Zoöl.), small two-winged fly of the genus Piophila, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other fermented liquors. -- Wine grower, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine. -- Wine measure, the measure by which wines and other spirits are sold, smaller than beer measure. -- Wine merchant, a merchant w…