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A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.

Liquor made from barley; strong ale. [Humorous] [Scot.] Burns.

t of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.

Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. Shak.

A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.

The beads or bead-forming quality of certain liquors; as, the beading of a brand of whisky.

Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.

A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse.

To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.

Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation. [Obs.] Dennis.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.

One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds. Longfellow.

A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd.

A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.] Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. Shak.

One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. [Obs.] They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. B. Jonson.