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Same as Withvine.

h and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

A rod with one serpent twined around it, thus differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two.

A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

Impregnated with wormwood; as, absinthiated wine.

Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

h; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

Before. [Obs.] If he have never drunk wine afore. Shak.

Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine…

A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain. J. Fletcher.

To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.

To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.

followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

A cruet for the wine and water at Mass.

Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), ., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.

of Europe. The Dutch anker, formerly also used in England, contained about 10 of the old wine gallons, or 8