The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beeswing \Bees"wing`\, n. The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.
Wiktionary
n. a filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time
Wikipedia
Beeswing may refer to:
- Potassium bitartrate, a sediment from winemaking, used in cooking as "cream of tartar"
- Beeswing (horse), a 19th-century champion racehorse from Northern England
- "Beeswing", a song on Richard Thompson's 1994 album Mirror Blue, and the name of his own record label
- Beeswing, Dumfries and Galloway, a small village in south-west Scotland
Beeswing (1833–1854) was a 19th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse from the north of England. In her day, Beeswing was hailed as the greatest mare in Britain and one of the greatest of all time.
Usage examples of "beeswing".
One is that after the second glass was filled the bottle was violently agitated, and so the third glass received the beeswing.
In that way all the beeswing would be in the last glass, would it not?
As he raised it to his lips, he held it up against the lamplight, and watched with the eye of a connoisseur the tiny scales of beeswing which floated in its rich ruby depths.
Scott, from under bushy eyebrows, winked at the apparition of a beeswing.