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LIQUOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked
Synonyms:
liquor; pot likker; pot liquor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("liquor" is a kind of...):
broth; stock (liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
Synonyms:
booze; hard drink; hard liquor; John Barleycorn; liquor; spirits; strong drink
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("liquor" is a kind of...):
alcohol; alcoholic beverage; alcoholic drink; inebriant; intoxicant (a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liquor"):
aqua vitae; ardent spirits (strong distilled liquor or brandy)
akvavit; aquavit (Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds)
arak; arrack (any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses)
bitters (alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots)
brandy (distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice)
gin (strong liquor flavored with juniper berries)
ouzo (a Greek liquor flavored with anise)
rum (liquor distilled from fermented molasses)
schnapps; schnaps (any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes)
mescal (a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant))
tequila (Mexican liquor made from fermented juices of an agave plant)
vodka (unaged colorless liquor originating in Russia)
whiskey; whisky (a liquor made from fermented mash of grain)
firewater (any strong spirits (such as strong whisky or rum))
lacing (a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process
Example:
waste liquors
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("liquor" is a kind of...):
liquid (a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure)
Context examples:
Now all this time the ale was running too, for Catherine had not turned the cock; and when the jug was full the liquor ran upon the floor till the cask was empty.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Leo also rules fine imported chocolates, fine wines, champagne and liquors, upscale spas, yachts, private planes, expensive, custom automobiles, castles, condos, and co-ops. You get the idea.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
She began to think that he must be in liquor;—the strangeness of such a visit, and of such manners, seemed no otherwise intelligible; and with this impression she immediately rose, saying, Mr. Willoughby, I advise you at present to return to Combe—I am not at leisure to remain with you longer.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The phial, to which I next turned my attention, might have been about half full of a blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It’s fine liquor, sir, but it gets into my cut lips most cruel.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He is a very temperate man, and you could not fancy him in liquor last night?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
This liquor tasted like a small cider, and was not unpleasant.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A chemical substance found in beer, wine, and liquor, and some medicines, mouthwashes, household products, and essential oils (scented liquid taken from plants).
(Alcohol, NCI Dictionary)
I had brought the customary liquor glasses, but Wolf Larsen frowned, shook his head, and signalled with his hands for me to bring the tumblers.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
