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A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed. [Obs. as an English word.]

A fermented liquor made in Cayenne from the grated root of the manioc, and resembling perry. Dunglison.

A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. [Written also cantine..]

ced to a liquid and solid form by intense pressure. It is produced in the fermentation of liquors, and by the combustion and decomposition of organic substances, or other substances containing carbon. It is formed in the explosion of fire damp in mines, and is hance called after damp; it is also know as choke damp, and…

A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.

A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.

A seller of fish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.

To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel. Arbuthnot.

mmovable; -- opposed to fluid. [Obs.] If . . . you mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body. Boyle.

; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink. [R.] Strong liquors . . . intoxicate, constringe, harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids. Arbuthnot.

A barrel or cask for liquor. [Obs.] Johnson.

oying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.

A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask.

Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. [R.]

The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface. [R.]

Overcome by liquor; tipsy. [Slang] Cut and dried, prepered beforehand; not spontaneous. -- Cut glass, glass having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures. -- Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. -- Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape af…

To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.

The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.

A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.