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Wine merchant   /waɪn mˈərtʃənt/   Listen
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Wine  n.  
1.
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. "Red wine of Gascoigne." "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." "Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine." Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol, containing also certain small quantities of ethers and ethereal salts which give character and bouquet. According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines are called red, white, spirituous, dry, light, still, etc.
2.
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.
3.
The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication. "Noah awoke from his wine."
Birch wine, Cape wine, etc. See under Birch, Cape, etc.
Spirit of wine. See under Spirit.
To have drunk wine of ape or To have drunk wine ape, to be so drunk as to be foolish. (Obs.)
Wine acid. (Chem.) See Tartaric acid, under Tartaric. (Colloq.)
Wine apple (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor.
Wine bag, a wine skin.
Wine biscuit, a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine.
Wine cask, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held, wine.
Wine cellar, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine.
Wine cooler, a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a stand for wine bottles, containing ice.
Wine fly (Zool.), small two-winged fly of the genus Piophila, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other fermented liquors.
Wine grower, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine.
Wine measure, the measure by which wines and other spirits are sold, smaller than beer measure.
Wine merchant, a merchant who deals in wines.
Wine of opium (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; also Sydenham's laudanum.
Wine press, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to extract their juice.
Wine skin, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various countries, for carrying wine.
Wine stone, a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See 1st Tartar, 1.
Wine vault.
(a)
A vault where wine is stored.
(b)
A place where wine is served at the bar, or at tables; a dramshop.
Wine vinegar, vinegar made from wine.
Wine whey, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of wine.





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"Wine merchant" Quotes from Famous Books



... became Brooks's. Why the original proprietor parted with so valuable a property is not clear, but the fact is indisputable that in 1778 the club passed into the possession of a wine merchant and moneylender of the name of Brooks, whose fame was celebrated a few years later by the ...
— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley
... taken, and a change of underclothing. They said we'd have to make our own transport arrangements, as the 6th Division had taken up everything. So in the town we saw an empty dray outside a public-house, and after investigating inside two pubs we unearthed a fat man, who took us to a wine merchant's yard, and he produced a huge dray, which he handed over to us! We lent it to the Matron of No.—, and we have commandeered the brewer for No.—'s to-morrow. Then we met a large French motor ambulance without a French owner, with "Havre" on it, which we knew, and sent Miss —— in it to the Asturias ...
— Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 • Anonymous
... advancing towards the landlord, who was standing by me, he said, "By G—d, landlord, your wine is damnable strong." "I don't know," replied the landlord; "it is generally reckoned pretty good, for I have it all from London."—"Pray, who is your wine merchant?" says the man of importance. "A very great man," says the landlord, "in his way; perhaps you may know him, sir; his name is Kirby." "Ah, what! honest Tom? he and I have cracked many a bottle of claret together; he is one of the most considerable merchants in the city; the dog is hellish poor, ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding
... 1432, stood at the south-west corner of Shoe Lane. Here the Clockmakers' Company held their meetings before the Great Fire, and in 1708 the "Castle" possessed the largest sign in London. Early in the last century, says Mr. Noble, its proprietor was Alderman Sir John Task, a wine merchant, who died in 1735 (George II.), worth, it was understood, a quarter of ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... water-glass to a bird's-cage, which is, after all, a place of honor, for it is to be of some use in the world. The bottle did not behold the light of day again, until it was unpacked with the rest in the wine merchant's cellar, and, for the first time, rinsed with water, which caused some very curious sensations. There it lay empty, and without a cork, and it had a peculiar feeling, as if it wanted something it knew not what. At last it was filled with rich and costly wine, a cork ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen


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