"Alcohol" is a word in ENGLISH
The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in
constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain
organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol
(C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl
forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.
Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit
(called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of
fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it
in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from
various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which
have undergone vinous fermentation.
An impalpable powder.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
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The act rectifying spirit.
Read the complete definitionAn instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure …
Read the complete definitionSpirituous or dls-tilled liquors. Sarlls v. U. S., 152 U. S. 570, 14 Sup. Ct. 720, 38 L. Ed. 556; …
Read the complete definitionA strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in …
Read the complete definitionA colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine …
Read the complete definitionTo obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from …
Read the complete definitionHighly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits.
Read the complete definitionThe technical name of methyl alcohol or wood spirit; also, by extension, the class name of any of the series …
Read the complete definitionImpregnated with, or containing, methyl alcohol or wood spirit; as, methylated spirits.
Read the complete definitionContaining more alcohol than proof spirit; stronger than proof spirit; that is, containing more than 49.3 per cent by weight …
Read the complete definitionRum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
Read the complete definitionA solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.
Read the complete definitionAny liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): …
Read the complete definitionContaining, or of the nature of, alcoholic (esp. distilled) spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; as, spirituous liquors.
Read the complete definitionFull of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
Read the complete definitionA solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.
Read the complete definitionContaining less alcohol than proof spirit. See Proof spirit, under Spirit.
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