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A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar. Swift.

to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. At the last it [wine] biteth like serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Prov. xxiii. 32.

Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.

in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

Bad port wine; any commo wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.

The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.

A claret wine from Bordeaux.

The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc.

place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.

A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convival drinking.

To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton.

A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain. Brandy fruit, fruit preserved in brandy and sugar.

e from within, as a bubble, a tumor, a seed vessel, a bag. Else the bottle break, and the wine runneth out. Math. ix. 17.

rink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.

Transmitting light; clear; transparent. From the brightest wines He 'd turn abhorrent. Thomson.

, to be so full that some of the contents flows over the brim; as, cup brimming over with wine; a man brimming over with fun.