SPIRITOUS • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Spiritous

... until the process is complete, handling or friction of any kind has to be carefully avoided. This will at once show its unsuitableness for repairs and restorations, especially of the kind now under consideration. The same process has to be gone through in the drying of a spiritous or alcoholic varnish, but it is so much the more rapid in consequence of there being only the alcohol to disperse, leaving the resin in a ...

— The Repairing & Restoration of Violins - 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. • Horace Petherick