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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LIQ'UOR, n. lik'or [L. liquor.]
A liquid or fluid substance. [See Liquid.] Liquor is a word of general signification, extending to water, milk, blood, say, juice, etc.; but its most common application is to spirituous fluids, whether distilled or fermented, to decoctions, solutions, tinctures.
LIQ'UOR, v.t. To moisten; to drench. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented [syn: liquor, 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: liquor, pot liquor, pot likker]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English licour, from Anglo-French, from Latin liquor, from liqu?re Date: 13th century a liquid substance: as a. a usually distilled rather than fermented alcoholic beverage b. a watery solution of a drug c. bath 2b(1) II. verb (liquored; liquoring) Date: 1502 transitive verb 1. to dress (as leather) with oil or grease 2. to make drunk with alcoholic liquor — usually used with up intransitive verb to drink alcoholic liquor especially to excess — usually used with up

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 an alcoholic (esp. distilled) drink. 2 water used in brewing. 3 other liquid, esp. that produced in cooking. 4 Pharm. a solution of a specified drug in water. --v.tr. 1 dress (leather) with grease or oil. 2 steep (malt etc.) in water. Etymology: ME f. OF lic(o)ur f. L liquor -oris (as LIQUID)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(liquors) Strong alcoholic drinks such as whisky, vodka, and gin can be referred to as liquor. (AM; in BRIT, use spirits) The room was filled with cases of liquor. ...intoxicating liquors. N-MASS

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

lik'-er: Every sort of intoxicating liquor except the beverage prepared from the juice of the grape (yayin), according to the usage of the Old Testament, is comprehended under the generic term shekhar (compare shakhar, to "be drunk"), rendered "strong drink" (compare Greek sikera in Lu 1:15). The two terms, yayin and shekhar, "wine" and "strong drink," are often found together and are used by Old Testament writers as an exhaustive classification of the beverages in use among the ancient Hebrews (Le 10:9; 1Sa 1:15; Pr 20:1, etc.).

See WINE; DRINK, STRONG.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Liquid, fluid, liquid substance. 2. Spirituous or alcoholic liquid, spirituous liquor, alcoholic drink, strong drink.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To liquor one's boots; to drink before a journey: among Roman Catholics, to administer the extreme unction.

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