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A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor. Grog blossom, a redness on the nose or face of persons who drink ardent spirits to excess. [Collog.]

A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.

Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds.

A vat for fermenting liquors.

To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently. Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Milton. Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.

A mixture of two malt liquors, esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts. Dickens.

Rough; acid; sour, as liquors; as, hard cider.

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

Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong. The liquor is too heady. Dryden.

Having much body or strength; -- said of wines, or other liquors.

A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking. "Bumpers around and no heeltaps." Sheridan.

To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. Dickens.

thee dost thou lift thy horn" Milton. -- To take a horn, to take a drink of intoxicating liquor. [Low]

A liquor consisting of honey diluted in water, and after fermentation called mead.

ent for determining the specific gravities of liquids, and thence the strength spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

art of determining the specific gravity of liquids, and thence the strength of spirituous liquors, saline solutions, etc.

er parts. Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. Sir I. Newton. Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. Sir T. Browne.

To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed. That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse. Denham.

Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.

Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.