About The Word Liquor
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Liquor
Liquor Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Liquor?
[n] the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked
[n] distilled rather than fermented [n] a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; "waste liquors" Synonyms | Synonyms for Liquor: booze | hard drink | hard liquor | John Barleycorn | pot liquor | spirits | strong drink Related Terms | Find terms related to Liquor: alcohol | alcoholic beverage | alcoholic drink | amobarbital sodium | Amytal | Amytal pill | analgesic | anodyne | aqua vitae | ardent spirits | barb | barbiturate | barbiturate pill | beverage | black stuff | blood | blue | blue angel | blue devil | blue heaven | blue velvet | booze | brew | broth | budge | calmative | chloral hydrate | codeine | codeine cough syrup | concentrate | Demerol | depressant | depressor | distillate | dolly | Dolophine | downer | drink | drinkable | extract | firewater | fluid | fluid extract | fluid mechanics | frosted | frosted shake | goofball | grog | H | hard liquor | hard stuff | heroin | hooch | hop | horse | hydraulics | hydrogeology | hypnotic | inebriant | infusion | intoxicant | intoxicating liquor | John Barleycorn | juice | junk | knockout drops | latex | laudanum | liquid | liquid extract | little brown jug | lotus | Luminal | Luminal pill | lush | M | malt | meperidine | methadone | Mickey Finn | milk | moonshine | morphia | morphine | mountain dew | narcotic | Nembutal | Nembutal pill | opiate | opium | pacifier | pain killer | paregoric | pen yan | phenobarbital | phenobarbital sodium | pick-me-up | pop | potable | potation | punch bowl | purple heart | quietener | rainbow | red | rum | sap | sauce | scag | schnapps | secobarbital sodium | Seconal | Seconal pill | sedative | semiliquid | shake | shit | sleeper | sleep-inducer | sleeping draught | sleeping pill | smack | social lubricant | soda | soda pop | soda water | sodium thiopental | soft drink | somnifacient | soother | soothing syrup | soporific | spirits | stock | strong drink | strong waters | tar | the bottle | the cup | the Demon Rum | the flowing bowl | the luscious liquor | the ruddy cup | tipple | tonic | toxicant | tranquilizer | Tuinal | Tuinal pill | turps | water | water of life | whey | white lightning | white mule | white stuff | yellow | yellow jacket See Also | akvavit | alcohol | alcoholic beverage | aqua vitae | aquavit | arak | ardent spirits | arrack | bitters | brandy | broth | firewater | gin | inebriant | intoxicant | lacing | liquid | mescal | ouzo | rum | schnapps | schnaps | stock | tequila | vodka | whiskey | whisky Liquor In Webster's Dictionary \Liq"uor\ (l[i^]k"[~e]r), n. [OE. licour, licur, OF.
licur, F. liqueur, fr. L. liquor, fr. liquere to be liquid.
See {Liquid}, and cf. {Liqueur}.]
1. Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice,
or the like.
2. Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either
distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer,
etc.
3. (Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; --
distinguished from tincture and aqua.
Note: The U. S. Pharmacop[oe]ia includes, in this class of
preparations, all aqueous solutions without sugar, in
which the substance acted on is wholly soluble in
water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter is
gaseous or very volatile, as in the aqu[ae] or waters.
--U. S. Disp.
{Labarraque's liquor} (Old Chem.), a solution of an alkaline
hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching
and as a disinfectant.
{Liquor of flints}, or {Liquor silicum} (Old Chem.), soluble
glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered
flints. See {Soluble glass}, under {Glass}.
{Liquor of Libavius}. (Old Chem.) See {Fuming liquor of
Libavius}, under {Fuming}.
{Liquor sanguinis} (s[a^]n"gw[i^]n*[i^]s) (Physiol.), the
blood plasma.
{Liquor thief}, a tube for taking samples of liquor from a
cask through the bung hole.
{To be in liquor}, to be intoxicated.
\Liq"uor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liquored} (-[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Liquoring}.] 1. To supply with liquor. [R.] 2. To grease. [Obs.] --Bacon. Liquor fishermen's boots. --Shak. |
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