Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
liquor .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Liquor.
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- noun Obsolete form of
liquor .
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Examples
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Likewise by the sayd cisterne there is drinke conueyed thorow certeine pipes and conducts, such as vseth to be drunke in the emperors court, vpon the which also there hang many vessels of golde, wherein, whosoeuer will may drinke of the sayd licour.
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And after they haue embalmed it with the licour of the Cedre and other fragraunt oyntmentes, and oyles, to preserue it the longer: thei bewrye it in holy sepulture.
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They be mighty huge trees, and when they are cut with an axe by the ground, there issueth out of the stocke a certain licour like vnto gumme, which they take and put into bags made of leaues, laying them for 15 daies together abroad in the sun, and at the end of those 15 dayes, when the said licour is throughly parched, it becommeth meale.
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If he to banket bid his friends, he will not shrinke On them at dinner to bestow a douzen kindes of drinke: Such licour as they haue, and as the countrey giues, But chiefly two, one called Kuas, whereby the Mousiket
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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No maruell though from banke of Baian shore hote Baths, or veines of skalding licour flow:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Bedrihone to Matarea, where the trees being replanted (be it by vertue of the soyle, or the water, aire, or any other thing whatsoeuer) it sufficeth that heare they beare the true balme and licour so much in these dayes esteemed of.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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No maruell though from banke of Baian shore hote Baths, or veines of skalding licour flow:
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Thañ whan ye haue it so y-leid/oñ þy lord {es} trenchour {e}, looke ye haue good mustarde þ {er} - to and good licour {e};
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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_ Potage is made of the licour in the whiche flesshe is sod in, with puttynge to, chopped herbes, and Otmell and salte.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Tak the zolkys of Eggs sodyn and temper it wyth mylk of a kow and do ther'to Comyn and Safroun and flowr 'of ris or wastel bred mycd and grynd in a morter and temper it up wyth the milk and mak it boyle and do ther'to wit [2] of Egg' corvyn smale and tak fat chese and kerf ther'to wan the licour is boylyd and serve it forth.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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