Cider
['saɪdə] or ['saɪdɚ]
Definition
(n.) The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, for making vinegar, and for other purposes.
Typist: Osborn
Definition
n. a drink made from apples.—ns. Cī′der-and a mixture of cider and other spirits; Cī′der-cup a drink of sweetened cider with other ingredients; Cī′derkin an inferior cider.
Checker: Wade
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of cider, denotes fortune may be won by you if your time is not squandered upon material pleasure. To see people drinking it, you will be under the influence of unfaithful friends.
Editor: Maggie
Examples
- Dissolve 3/4 of an ounce of salicylic acid in a gallon of cider, and then add this amount to each barrel of cider. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Cider and vinegar are likewise cleared by passage through charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This liquor tasted like a small cider, and was not unpleasant. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Or a cider mill in the grinding, or bread fresh from the oven? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the farm yard appear the improved carriage and wagon, the well pump, the wind wheel, the fruit drier, the bee hive, and the cotton and cider press. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Cider will be kept sweet if there is added to each barrel 1 quart of the solution immediately after the cider comes from the press. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This is true not only of grape juice but also of the juice of all other sweet fruits; apple juice ferments to cider, currant juice to currant wine, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If acid should be in excess add honey or sugar; if too sweet add cider vinegar to suit the taste. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Gold, silver, and lead are examples of elements, and water, alcohol, cider, sand, and marble are complex substances, or compounds, as we are apt to call them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Typist: Rex