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, alcoholic (esp. distilled) spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; as, spirituous liquors.

The quality or state of being spirituous. [R.] Boyle.

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

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…

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.

A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.

A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd.

Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convival drinking.

As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. Shak.

One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth (Zoöl.), a large British moth (Odonestis potatoria).

Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon.

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.

A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

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

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

Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. The inebriating effect of popular applause. Macaulay.

A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.

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.]

Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.