Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An alcoholic beverage made by distillation rather than by fermentation.
- noun A rich broth resulting from the prolonged cooking of meat or vegetables, especially greens.
- noun An aqueous solution of a nonvolatile substance.
- noun A solution, emulsion, or suspension for industrial use.
- transitive verb To steep (malt, for example).
- transitive verb Slang To make drunk with alcoholic liquor. Often used with up:
from The Century Dictionary.
- To moisten; drench.
- To rub with oil or grease; anoint; lubricate.
- To treat with a liquor; apply liquor or a solution to, as in various manufacturing operations.
- To give liquor to; supply with liquor for drinking.
- To drink; especially, to drink spirits: often with up.
- noun A liquid or fluid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, etc.
- noun A strong or active liquid of any sort.
- noun A strong solution of a particular substance, used in the industrial arts. The liquor of any substance is that substance held in solution, and the word used absolutely has meanings differing according to the indnstry in which it is used.
- noun An elixir.
- noun Hence— Any prepared solution, as a sugar solution for claying the loaves, or a solution of a dye or mordant.
- noun A dilution, as in
liquor ammoniæ . [In technical Latin phrases pronounced li′ kwôr, as in liquor amnii, liquor potosseæ, etc.] - noun Measured (in selling) with their natural juice, as oysters: opposed to solid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To supply with liquor.
- transitive verb obsolete To grease.
- noun Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
- noun Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
- noun (Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from
tincture andaqua . - noun (Old Chem.) a solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant.
- noun (Old Chem.) soluble glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under
Glass . - noun (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under
Fuming . - noun (Physiol.) the blood plasma.
- noun a tube for taking samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole.
- noun to be intoxicated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
liquid . - noun obsolete A drinkable liquid.
- noun A
liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both). - noun Strong
alcoholic drink derived fromfermentation anddistillation . - verb intransitive To
drink liquor, usually toexcess . - verb transitive To
cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess. - verb obsolete, transitive To
grease .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
- noun the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked
- noun a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The week before, however, in a speech to the AFL-CIO convention in Hartford, Lieberman used the phrase liquor store.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The week before, however, in a speech to the AFL-CIO convention in Hartford, Lieberman used the phrase liquor store.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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When the liquor is about 70°, it is generally tunned off into a large vat or cask for it to ferment.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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On the windows there were gratings like those in liquor stores.
carolyn forché | the colonel « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Drinking straight liquor is ... well ... for people like you!
In a Second Life Candid Engineer 2009
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December 27th, 2009 12: 56 pm ET there is an inherent danger to the presence of alcohol onboard an airplane, being in liquor bottles or after shave, as they can be used as an accelerant. wIth a piece of cloth or string and a match or a cig lighter ... why do we still allow that onboard?
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Also, I find it interesting that preference for liquor is pretty consistent across all categories.
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On the windows there were gratings like those in liquor stores.
September « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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“Also, I find it interesting that preference for liquor is pretty consistent across all categories.”
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If you study the numbers closely, you see that liquor is probably wildly popular with women in their 20s, and unpopular with men the same age. lh says:
john commented on the word liquor
"The brewer's word for the water used in the brewing process during malting, mashing and sparging."
- Beer Glossary
October 7, 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word liquor
From the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English:
"A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua."
May 4, 2017