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Hollow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood. "Holy rites and solemn feasts." Milton.

The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Congregation of the Holy Cross (R. C. Ch.), a community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. Addis & Arn…

A secular festival; a holiday.

To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel.

Deficiency or want of bile.

Lacking bile.

The science of aërolites.

Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold. [Obs.] Shak.

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

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 crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization. Graham.

An alcoholic tincture prepared with fresh plants. New Eng. Dict.

Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.

A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.

Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.

To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol.

strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.

Relating to the alcoholometer or alcoholometry. The alcoholometrical strength of spirituous liquors. Ure.

The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.