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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liquor \Liq"uor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquored (l[i^]k"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquoring.]
To supply with liquor. [R.]
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To grease. [Obs.]
--Bacon.Liquor fishermen's boots.
--Shak.
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.]
Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
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(Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.
Note: The U. S. Pharmacopoeia 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, likur "any matter in a liquid state," from Old French licor "fluid, liquid; sap; oil" (Modern French liqueur), from Latin liquorem (nominative liquor) "liquidity, fluidity," also "a liquid, the sea," from liquere "be fluid, liquid" (see liquid (adj.)). Narrowed sense of "fermented or distilled drink" (especially wine) first recorded c.1300. To liquor up "get drunk" is from 1845. The form in English has been assimilated to Latin, but the pronunciation has not changed.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A liquid. 2 (context obsolete English) A drinkable liquid. 3 A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both). 4 (context chiefly US English) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation. 5 In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To drink liquor, usually to excess. 2 (context transitive English) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess. 3 (context obsolete transitive English) To grease.
WordNet
n. distilled rather than fermented [syn: spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink]
a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; "waste liquors"
the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked [syn: pot liquor, pot likker]
Wikipedia
The Liquor novel series is a novel series by Poppy Z. Brite. The books are linked by common characters and the setting, a New Orleans restaurant where "the potboiler meets the saucier". The series revolves around the two young chefs John Rickey and Gary "G-man" Stubbs, their restaurant and their life in New Orleans.
"Liquor" is a song by American recording artist Chris Brown from his seventh studio album Royalty. It was released as a single on June 26, 2015, by RCA Records.
Usage examples of "liquor".
As for drinking, I am something of a chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from traces of a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such as fusel oil, acetic acid, ethylacetate, acetaldehyde and furfurol.
Poor old soul - to what pitiful depths of hallucination had his liquor, plus his hatred of the decay, alienage, and disease around him, brought that fertile, imaginative brain?
Poor old soul--to what pitiful depths of hallucination had his liquor, plus his hatred of the decay, alienage, and disease around him, brought that fertile, imaginative brain?
Sharpe had made a brief excursion in the dusk and had returned with two clay bottles filled with arrack, and they drank the liquor in the gloom.
The food and liquor were splendid and nothing banal, boring or asinine was said.
Make a sauce of the butter, flour, salt, paprica, and water in which the asparagus was cooked, or use half a cup of cream in the place of part of the asparagus liquor.
She went to church three times a week, read her Bible atwixt and between, and swore lips that touched liquor would never touch hers.
After listening for a time with his own eyes growing wider and wider, Bayle drank down a brimful cup of the dark raw liquor in one go.
Mad Binny took command of the room, detailing how the broth should be made and the fish cooked, directing Raina to the woodpile for firewood, and Effie to the storage chest for hard liquor.
Blues screw that might have driven a lesser Bluesman to shoot hisself, get shot, get hold of some bad liquor, or bust up his guitar and take a job down to the mill.
This middle part boiled in some kind of liquor was supposed good for persons wounded, dry-beaten, and bruised, or that have fallen from some high place.
When I note how few Catholics are engaged in honestly tilling the honest soil, and how many Catholics are engaged in the liquor traffic, I cannot talk buncombe to anybody.
It was no skin off his nose if the average cowhand worked his ass off for just a dollar a day and grub, only to get skimmed by everybody from those check cashers to the barkeeps who jacked up the price of bar liquor on a payday weekend.
Then he offers me a bowl of cashews, he opens a liquor cabinet next to the fireplace, and I see rows of keys hanging there, sparkling and familiar.
The Indians of Nicaragua make a powerful chicha, a liquor from fresh ginger, as well as the more traditional corn chicha distilled by many Latin American Indians.