Wine
[waɪn]
Definition
(noun.) a red as dark as red wine.
(noun.) fermented juice (of grapes especially).
(verb.) treat to wine; 'Our relatives in Italy wined and dined us for a week'.
(verb.) drink wine.
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Definition
(n.) The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.
(n.) A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
(n.) The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
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Definition
n. the fermented juice of the grape: a liquor made from other fruits: (fig.) intoxication: a wine-drinking a wine-party.—ns. Wine′-bag a wine-skin: a tippler; Wine′-bibb′er a bibber or drinker of wine: a drunkard; Wine′-bibb′ing; Wine′-bis′cuit a sweet biscuit intended to be served with wine; Wine′-cask a cask for holding wine; Wine′-cell′ar a cellar for storing wine.—adj. Wine′-col′oured of the colour of red wine.—ns. Wine′-cool′er a receptacle for cooling wine in bottles about to be served at table; Wine′-fat the vat receiving the liquor from a wine-press; Wine′-glass a small glass used in drinking wine; Wine′-glass′ful; Wine′-grow′er one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine; Wine′-meas′ure an old English liquid measure its gallon 5⁄6 of the gallon in beer-measure containing 231 cubic inches—the standard United States gallon; Wine′-mer′chant a merchant who deals in wine esp. at wholesale; Wine′-par′ty a drinking-party; Wine′-press a machine in which grapes are pressed in the manufacture of wine; Wine′-skin a skin for holding wine; Wine′-stone crude argol; Wine′-tāst′er one whose business it is to sample wines; Wine′-vault a vaulted wine-cellar: (pl.) a place where wine is tasted or drunk.—Adam's wine water; Rhine Rhenish wine wine produced on the banks of the Rhine esp. hock; Spirit of wine alcohol; White wine Chablis Sauterne the wines of Germany—formerly Madeira and sherry.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of drinking wine, forebodes joy and consequent friendships. To dream of breaking bottles of wine, foretells that your love and passion will border on excess. To see barrels of wine, prognosticates great luxury. To pour it from one vessel into another, signifies that your enjoyments will be varied and you will journey to many notable places. To dream of dealing in wine denotes that your occupation will be remunerative. For a young woman to dream of drinking wine, indicates she will marry a wealthy gentleman, but withal honorable.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as 'liquor sometimes as rum. ' Wine madam is God's next best gift to man.
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Examples
- Will you take a glass of wine, Lowten? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The same point is frequently at this day a matter of controversy in the wine countries. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Lightwood lifted his head at the neck, and put a wine-glass to his lips. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In a little while we hear stories of an Omayyad Caliph, Walid II (743-744), who mocked at the Koran, ate pork, drank wine, and did not pray. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here is wine, said Mr. Pumblechook. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I took another mouthful and some cheese and a rinse of wine. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The furniture for which he owed would not want renewing; nor even the stock of wine for a long while. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- About 1/4 to 3/4 of an ounce per 50 gallons will be found sufficient for most wines. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In tea and distilled spirits there has been a decrease, while the consumption of wines is the smallest of all and has varied but little. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Previously wines had been preserved by the addition of alcohol, which made them both dearer and more detrimental to health. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They'll have Italian wines at a hotel this size. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Might not the acidity, bitte rness, defective flavor, which were threatening the foreign sale of French wines, be owing to ferments? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Such are, for example, the duties upon foreign wines, upon coffee, chocolate, tea, sugar, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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