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-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

hich cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.

t spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons.

Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine. [Obs.] This can not be, by no assay of reason. Shak.

r and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. Byron.

The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.

A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.

A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor (Drink and Welcome).

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

n different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31

A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. Brown bastard is your only drink. Shak.

The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.

o drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

frame, crib, or inclosed place, used as a receptacle for any commodity; as, a corn bin; a wine bin; a coal bin.

gummifera) of turpentine tree. -- Birch partridge. (Zoöl.) See Ruffed grouse. -- Birch wine, wine made of the spring sap of the birch. -- Oil of birch. (a) An oil obtained from the bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), and used in the preparation of genuine ( and sometimes of the imitation) Russia leathe…

To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse. [Obs. or Dial.] Skelton.