01 n. Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
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Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
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Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
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A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.(Pharm.)
Phrases & compounds
Labarraque's liquor —
a solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant.
Liquor of flints —
soluble glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under Glass.
Liquor sanguinis —
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.