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nd kills the stalks of potato vines, often causing serious damage to the crop. -- Potato whisky, a strong, fiery liquor, having a hot, smoky taste, and rich in amyl alcohol (fusel oil); it is made from potatoes or potato starch. -- Potato worm (Zoöl.), the large green larva of a sphinx, or hawk moth (Macrosila quinqu…

Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry. [Written also potheen, and potteen.]

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.

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

To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.

Whisking. [Colloq.] Coombe.

A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott.

row about the nostrils, or on other parts of the face, in many animals, as the so- called whiskers of the cat, and the hairs of the nostrils of man.

To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.

A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; -- called also black-whiskered vireo.

To whisk along quickly; to hurry. [R.] Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.

A whisket, or basket. [Prov. Eng.] Ainsworth.

A whisk, or small broom.