Liquor - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Liquor : (noun)
1: distilled rather than fermented [syn: spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink]
2: a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; "waste liquors"
3: the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked [syn: pot liquor, pot likker]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Liquor : \Liq"uor\ (l[i^]k"[~e]r), n. [OE. licour, licur, OF. licur, F. liqueur, fr. L. liquor, fr. liquere to be liquid. See Liquid, and cf. Liqueur.] 1. Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.

2. Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.

3. (Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; --
distinguished from tincture and aqua.

Note: The U. S. Pharmacop[oe]ia includes, in this class of preparations, all aqueous solutions without sugar, in which the substance acted on is wholly soluble in water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter is gaseous or very volatile, as in the aqu[ae] or waters. --U. S. Disp.

Labarraque's liquor (Old Chem.), a solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant.

Liquor of flints, or Liquor silicum (Old Chem.), soluble glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under Glass.

Liquor of Libavius. (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming.

Liquor sanguinis (s[a^]n"gw[i^]n*[i^]s) (Physiol.), 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.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Liquor : \Liq"uor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquored (-[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquoring.] 1. To supply with liquor. [R.]

2. To grease. [Obs.] --Bacon.

Liquor fishermen's boots. --Shak.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)