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Liquor   /lˈɪkər/   Listen
noun
Liquor  n.  
1.
Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
2.
Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
3.
(Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; distinguished from tincture and aqua. Note: The U. S. Pharmacopoeia includes, in this class of preparations, all aqueous solutions without sugar, in which the substance acted on is wholly soluble in water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter is gaseous or very volatile, as in the aquae or waters.
Labarraque's liquor (Old Chem.), a solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant.
Liquor of flints, or Liquor silicum (Old Chem.), soluble glass; so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under Glass.
Liquor of Libavius. (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming.
Liquor sanguinis, (Physiol.), the blood plasma.
Liquor thief, a tube for taking samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole.
To be in liquor, to be intoxicated.


verb
Liquor  v. t.  (past & past part. liquored; pres. part. liquoring)  
1.
To supply with liquor. (R.)
2.
To grease. (Obs.) "Liquor fishermen's boots."





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"Liquor" Quotes from Famous Books



... heavens have declared against us, and that this city contains some, whose vices and crimes must bring the Almighty vengeance upon us. Who can they be but the kafirs, the infidels, those transgressors of our law, those wretches, who defile the purity of our walls by openly drinking wine, that liquor forbidden by the holy Prophet (upon whom be blessing and peace!) and by making our streets the scene of their vices? Let us go; follow me to where these odious wine-bibbers live; let us break their jars, and at least destroy one of the causes of the ...
— The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan • James Morier
... liquor if I were dying of snakebite, and he wouldn't offer me a drink if he knew I was," ...
— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper
... with a dramatic gesture; "see it? I see a deal too much of it; while you fellows are snoozing in bed, I'm turning out filthy liquor shops, drug stores, tea houses, and stopping Chinese ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker
... used to go hunting with the damnable Outsider weapon, although the meat killed with it wasn't fit to eat, and he used it on birds until there wasn't one left anywhere near the plant. He never killed a bluebird, though. He said it was bad luck. Sometimes he drank moonshine corn liquor, usually alone, because the Outsiders wouldn't touch it, but sometimes he made some of us drink with him, watching sharply to see we didn't poison him and craftily picking his nose. When he was drunk he ...
— Goodbye, Dead Man! • Tom W. Harris
... was of rather a convivial turn; he liked to have a good time, as he called it; and, indeed, he seemed to think that the chief end of man was to get money enough to have a good time continually, a sort of good eternity. His head was strong, and he could stand a great deal of liquor; and I have seen him sip and savor a glass of raw brandy or whisky as another man would a glass of Madeira. In this, and the other phases of his life about town, I had no participation, being constitutionally as well ...
— David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales • Julian Hawthorne


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