Search the Dictionary

Producing intoxication; as, intoxicating liquors.

rmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice.

A beverage composed of brandy, whisky, or some other spirituous liquor, with sugar, pounded ice, and sprigs of mint; -- called also mint julep. [U.S.]

etc., are kept for sale. -- Junk vat (Leather Manuf.), a large vat into which spent tan liquor or ooze is pumped. -- Junk wad (Mil.), a wad used in proving cannon; also used in firing hot shot.

An effervescent liquor like kumiss, made from fermented milk, used as a food and as a medicine in the northern Caucasus. -- Ke*fir"ic (#), a.

A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.

An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juice of the small black cherry.

An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe. [Written also koumyss, kumiss, kumish, and kumys.] Koumiss has from time immemorial served the Tartar instead of wine or spirits. J. H. N…

An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking of casks, or waste of liquors by leaking.

ted sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.

That which settles at the bottom, as, of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural. [Lees occurs also as a form of the singular.] "The lees of wine." Holland. A thousand demons lurk within the lee. Young. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Sha…

The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out. Dryden. A heathen sacrifice or libation to the earth. Bacon.

mission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors. To have a license and a leave at London to dwell. P. Plowman.

e to keep an in or eating house; esp., a victualer who has a license to sell intoxicating liquors.

Liquor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.

Liquorice. [Obs.] Chaucer.

lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.

of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.

A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.