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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.

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.

e or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.

A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger. [U. S.]

A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage.

ation formed for the purpose of diminishing or stopping the use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage.

A beverage made of brandy and gin. [Slang]

The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool. A jolly wassail bowl, A wassail of good ale. Old Song.

Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red wine of Gascoigne." Piers Plowman. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Prov. xx. 1. Bacchus, that fi…

A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat. [Written also zythem.]