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The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.

A maker of cider. [Obs.] Mortimer.

A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water. Ciderkin is made for common drinking, and supplies the place of small beer. Mortimer.

One who coincides with another in an opinion.

One who decides.

n 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.

Full of spirit of life; effervescas, brick cider.

See Cider. [Archaic]

y, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.

the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.

The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [U.S.]

Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.

An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvæ.

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

e part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. And old cloak makes a new jerkin. Shak.

ues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.

To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine. New cider, mulled with ginger warm. Gay.

Ale or cider made in that month. The country gentlemen had a posset or drink they called October. Emerson.

A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider. Mortimer.

Cider. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.