liquor : Idioms & Phrases

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bleach liquor

  • noun a solution containing bleaching agents that is used to bleach textiles or paper pulp
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chocolate liquor

  • noun the liquid or paste that is produced when cocoa beans are roasted and ground; the basis of all chocolate
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corn liquor

  • noun whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
    moonshine; bootleg.
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Fuming liquor of Libsvius

  • (Old Chem.), stannic chloride; the chloride of tin, SnCl4, forming a colorless, mobile liquid which fumes in the air. Mixed with water it solidifies to the so-called butter of tin.
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hard liquor

  • noun an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
    hard drink; spirits; liquor; John Barleycorn; booze; strong drink.
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Iron liquor

  • a solution of an iron salt, used as a mordant by dyers.
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Labarraque's liquor

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

  • noun a license authorizing the holder to sell alcoholic beverages
    liquor licence.
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liquor license

  • noun a license authorizing the holder to sell alcoholic beverages
    liquor licence.
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Liquor of flints, ∨ Liquor silicum

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

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

  • (Physiol.), the blood plasma.
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liquor store

  • noun a store that sells alcoholic beverages for consumption elsewhere
    off-licence; package store.
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Liquor thief

  • a tube for taking samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole.
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Malt liquor

  • noun a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer
    malt.
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  • an alcoholic liquor, as beer, ale, porter, etc., prepared by fermenting an infusion of malt.
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Mother liquor

  • (Chem.), the impure or complex residual solution which remains after the salts readily or regularly crystallizing have been removed.
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pot liquor

  • noun the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked
    liquor; pot likker.
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Red liquor

  • (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also red mordant.
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Tin liquor, Tin mordant

  • (Dyeing), stannous chloride, used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing.
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To be in liquor

  • to be intoxicated.
Webster 1913