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To supply with liquor. [R.]

See Licorice.

See Lickerish. [Obs.] Shak.

Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish. [Obs.] Marston.

Not moistened or wet with liquor; dry. "Unliquored coach." Bp. Hall.

To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.

our, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered. He was stern and his face as acid as ever. A. Trollope.

e to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.

led 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 nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.…

A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.

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.

lating 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.

An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.

or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.

ons imposed upon them among the orthodox Mohammedans. Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced. --Bab"ist, n.

A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor (Drink and Welcome).