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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.

the 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.

Any of eight isomeric liquid compounds, C5H11OH; ordinarily, a mixture of two of these forming a colorless liquid with a peculiar cough-exciting odor and burning taste, the chief constituent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

ine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.

Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.

A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. [Mexico and Spanish America.]

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

Same as Alcoholometer, Alcoholometric.

See Alcoholometry.