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A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.

barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to flavor beverages or edibles.

Parched maize, ground, and mixed with sugar, etc. Mixed with water, it makes a nutritious beverage.

An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc. Hood.

A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly. "I have drugged their posset." Shak.

A potable liquid; a beverage. "Useful in potables." J. Philips.

Drink; beverage. "Thin potations." Shak.

Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages. Writ of prohibition (Law), a writ issued by a superior tribunal, directed to an inferior court, commanding the latter to cease from the prosecution of a suit depending before it. Blackstone.

vors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc. Milk punch, a sort of punch made with spirit, milk, sugar, spice, etc. -- Punch bowl, a large bowl i…

A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.

A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc. [Obs.] Blount.

ho sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.

dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water. U. S. Disp.

d find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt. Beverly.

a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down. Sherry cobbler, a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.

c process of soda manufacture; -- called also alkali waste. -- Soda water, originally, a beverage consisting of a weak solution of sodium bicarbonate, with some acid to cause effervescence; now, in common usage, a beverage consisting of water highly charged with carbon dioxide (carbonic acid). Fruit sirups, cream, etc…

A kind of beverage; sherbet. Smolett.

, or in any of its parts; -- sometimes used without qualification to signify an alcoholic beverage used as a stimulant.

. [Cambridge Univ. Eng.] Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever. J. Fletcher.