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trose or glucose, also maltose, dextrin, etc. It is used as a cheap adulterant of sirups, beers, etc.

Formerly, a kind of beer or ale. [Eng.]

n; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer. Dryden.

A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. Mortimer.

A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure. [Written also kinderkin.]

Lager beer.

y, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.

Relating to, containing, or made with, malt. Malt liquor, an alcoholic liquor, as beer, ale, porter, etc., prepared by fermenting an infusion of malt. -- Malt dust, fine particles of malt, or of the grain used in making malt; -used as a fertilizer. " Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the…

ittle; a small quantity; a measured simply. "Modicums of wit." Shak. Her usual modicum of beer and punch. Thackeray.

a preparation made from Cocculus Indicus, etc., used to impart an intoxicating quality to beer.

A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany. Addison. The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum. Pope.

red at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. W. Irving.

A small glass of beer. [Slang] Pony chaise, a light, low chaise, drawn by a pony or a pair of ponies. -- Pony engine, a small locomotive for switching cars from one track to another. [U.S.] -- Pony truck (Locomotive Engine), a truck which has only two wheels. -- Pony truss (Bridge Building), a truss which has so litt…

A boy who carries pots of ale, beer, etc.; a menial in a public house.

The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine.

The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. [Slang] Dickens.

Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices. "Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite." Addison. "Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes." Dickens.…

A kind of beer. Same as Quass.

A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians. [written also quas.]

ntensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.