Liquor
['lɪkə] or ['lɪkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked.
(noun.) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented.
(noun.) a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; 'waste liquors'.
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Definition
(n.) Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
(n.) Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
(n.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.
(v. t.) To supply with liquor.
(v. t.) To grease.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Liquid, fluid, liquid substance.[2]. Spirituous or alcoholic liquid.
Editor: Spence
Definition
n. anything liquid: strong drink: a strong solution of a particular substance: any prepared solution.—v.t. to apply liquor or a solution to: (Shak.) to rub with oil or grease.—v.i. (slang) to drink (esp. with up).—n. Liq′uor-gauge a rod used by excisemen for measuring the depth of liquid in a cask.—Liquor laws restrictive legislation with regard to the sale of intoxicating drink.—In liquor drunk; Malt liquors liquors brewed from malt.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of buying liquor, denotes selfish usurpation of property upon which you have no legal claim If you sell it, you will be criticised for niggardly benevolence. To drink some, you will come into doubtful possession of wealth, but your generosity will draw around you convivial friends, and women will seek to entrance and hold you. To see liquor in barrels, denotes prosperity, but unfavorable tendency toward making home pleasant. If in bottles, fortune will appear in a very tangible form. For a woman to dream of handling, or drinking liquor, foretells for her a happy Bohemian kind of existence. She will be good natured but shallow minded. To treat others, she will be generous to rivals, and the indifference of lovers or husband will not seriously offset her pleasures or contentment.
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Examples
- If,' said Mr. Stiggins--'if there is any one of them less odious than another, it is the liquor called rum. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The bark of trees made into a liquor has been used for centuries in treating practically all kinds of hides. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Send her here,' said Sikes, pouring out a glass of liquor. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Nobody affects the character of liberality and good fellowship, by being profuse of a liquor which is as cheap as small beer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Yes, answered Gutenberg, it is in effect a wine-press, but it shall shortly spout forth floods of the most abundant and marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to quench the thirst of man. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I gave him a dose of syrup of buckthorn, and put him on a diet of pot-liquor and vegetables till further orders. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- That statement was issued at the beginning of a campaign in which Woodrow Wilson was the nominee of a party that has always been closely associated with the liquor interests. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With these words, he led the way to the door, after stopping to pay for the liquor that had been drunk. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Why, though I'm umble, I'm useful to him, you know; and he understands his interest when he isn't in liquor! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Lots of food and liquor and pretty girls! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And even if you exchanged blankets for the child--or books and firing--it would be impossible to prevent their being turned into liquor. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Compeyson's wife, being used to him, giv him some liquor to get the horrors off, and by and by he quieted. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Perry tells me that Mr. Cole never touches malt liquor. Jane Austen. Emma.
- An hour ago, the happiness of knowing that I shall never press her again, intoxicates me like strong liquor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The largest per capita increase since 1870 has been in malt liquors, and the next in coffee. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Remember, if he calls for liquors of any sort, not to give them to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Confusion is an union of two bodies, such as different liquors, where the parts become entirely undistinguishable. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Then the scales fell from the eyes of the Seven, and one said, Alas, that we drank of the curious liquors. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But they forgot the bottles of curious liquors, and left them behind. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Reel machines are then employed to transfer the hides from one vat to another, thus subjecting them to liquors of increasing strength. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Those liquors, on the contrary, would probably become cheaper, and the consumption of them would be more likely to increase than to diminish. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The only person behind the counter at which the liquors were served, was a bewildered servant girl, perfectly ignorant of the business. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Soap, salt, candles, leather, and fermented liquors, have, indeed, become a good deal dearer, chiefly from the taxes which have been laid upon them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Catch the red-nosed man a-goin' anyvere but vere the liquors is; not he, Samivel, not he. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- One thing I never could comprehend was that Tyler had a sideboard with liquors and generally crackers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The employment of a brewer, and even that of a retailer of fermented liquors, are as necessary division's of labour as any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Though in every country there are many people who spend upon such liquors more than they can afford, there are always many more who spend less. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- At present, drunkenness is by no means the vice of people of fashion, or of those who can easily afford the most expensive liquors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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