WordNet
n. the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline [syn: ethyl alcohol, ethanol, fermentation alcohol]
Usage examples of "grain alcohol".
The road was as straight as a shot of grain alcohol, and the jackrabbits, well, each individual rabbit had the right to make his or her own choice when it came to crossing the path of an onrushing Airstream turkey.
Thanks to Phinney, they burn pure grain alcohol which we distill ourselves from field corn and rye, which works more efficiently than gasoline and produces only water and carbon dioxide as exhaust.
With the countertop cleared, save for the microscope and the jars of penicillin-containing broth--or at least I hoped that's what they were-I began the preparations for surgery, taking down my small case of surgical instruments, and fetching a large bottle of grain alcohol out of the cupboard.
However, a slower-acting but equally serious form of amblyopia is often caused by nutritional deficiencies associated with ordinary grain alcohol.
Despite all guards set over the still and the purified alcohol, the hands, living on half their usual daily ration of grog, were so desperate for drink that they contrived somehow to get at the pure grain alcohol meant for sterilization.
The stuff they'd given him was grain alcohol mixed with water and the juice of berries.
The three strangers managed to make themselves intelligible and to make it clear that they wanted thirty gallons of grain alcohol.
They had driven him east in their wagon train, getting drunk on pure grain alcohol, and congratulating themselves over their catch.
Since the introduction of grain alcohol, he had put on even more fat, and he seemed to be half drunk all the time and all drunk half the time.
In Bill's top ten list of favorite libations containing CO2HO2O, wine was maybe number nine, with Sterno as number ten and good old brain-destroying grain alcohol with all its varied applications leading the pack.
First of all, he got two gallons of pure grain alcohol, 190 proof, or 95 percent pure.
Afterward the wisemen, drunk on grain alcohol and valerian root, swore the drawing had been a success.
He said that was okay and brought out a silver flask that he'd filled with the grain alcohol punch before it had run out downstairs and she was already so drunk on that plus beer that she drank more of it anyway and before she knew it they were on Lorna's bed making out and she was too drunk to be nervous.