Whisky
['wɪskɪ] or ['wɪski]
Definition
(n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.
(n.) Alt. of Whiskey
Typist: Sadie
Definition
n. a spirit made by the distillation of the fermented extract from malted and unmalted cereals potatoes or any starch-yielding material—the best qualities made either from malted barley alone or from a mixed grist of barley-malt and dried barley and oats.—adjs. Whis′kified Whis′keyfied intoxicated.—n. Whis′ky-liv′er cirrhosis of the liver from too much whisky.—Whisky insurrection an outbreak against the excise regulations which occurred in Western Pennsylvania in 1794; Whisky toddy toddy having whisky for its chief ingredient.
n. a light gig.
Typed by Jared
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of whisky in bottles, denotes that you will be careful of your interests, protecting them with energy and watchfulness, thereby adding to their proportion. To drink it alone, foretells that you will sacrifice your friends to your selfishness. To destroy whisky, you will lose your friends by your ungenerous conduct. Whisky is not fraught with much good. Disappointment in some form will likely appear. To see or drink it, is to strive and reach a desired object after many disappointments. If you only see it, you will never obtain the result hoped and worked for.
Editor: Tracy
Unserious Contents or Definition
Trouble put up in liquid form.
Typed by Judy
Examples
- I think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all this cross-questioning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yes, there was a tantalus containing brandy and whisky on the sea-chest. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He thought longingly of a tumbler of whisky-and-water. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Malone, indeed, would much rather have had whisky; but Mr. Donne, being an Englishman, did not keep the beverage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The people married and bred; except for the consumption of whisky when it could be got, and a little fighting, family life was their only amusement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is a demand for whisky, but I think you and I do not care to sell it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You remember that I asked whether whisky and brandy were in the cabin. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I found Sergeant Cuff and the gardener, with a bottle of Scotch whisky between them, head over ears in an argument on the growing of roses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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