liquor

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: liq=uor

CIDE DICTIONARY

liquor, 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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.  [1913 Webster]

  " 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 aquæ or waters."  U. S. Disp.  [1913 Webster]

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, (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.

liquor, v. t. 

•  To supply with liquor.  [1913 Webster]
•  To grease.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

  "Liquor fishermen's boots."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

liquor, 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)

THESAURUS

liquor

Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, John Barleycorn, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, beverage, black stuff, blood, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, booze, brew, broth, budge, calmative, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, concentrate, depressant, depressor, distillate, dolly, downer, drink, drinkable, extract, firewater, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, frosted, frosted shake, goofball, grog, hard liquor, hard stuff, heroin, hooch, hop, horse, hydraulics, hydrogeology, hypnotic, inebriant, infusion, intoxicant, intoxicating liquor, juice, junk, knockout drops, latex, laudanum, liquid, liquid extract, little brown jug, lotus, lush, malt, meperidine, methadone, milk, moonshine, morphia, morphine, mountain dew, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, pick-me-up, pop, potable, potation, punch bowl, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, red, rum, sap, sauce, scag, schnapps, secobarbital sodium, sedative, semiliquid, shake, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, social lubricant, soda, soda pop, soda water, sodium thiopental, soft drink, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, spirits, stock, strong drink, strong waters, tar, the Demon Rum, the bottle, the cup, the flowing bowl, the luscious liquor, the ruddy cup, tipple, tonic, toxicant, tranquilizer, turps, water, water of life, whey, white lightning, white mule, white stuff, yellow, yellow jacket

ROGET THESAURUS

liquor

Drunkenness

VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.

Food

N food, eating, deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination, gluttony, hippophagy, ichthyophagy, (appetite), mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, gob, chops, drinking, potation, draught, libation, carousal, drunkenness, food, pabulum, aliment, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, sustentation, sustention, nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board, commissariat, prey, forage, pasture, pasturage, fare, cheer, diet, dietary, regimen, belly timber, staff of life, bread, bread and cheese, comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta, grub, grubstake, prog, meat, bread, bread stuffs, cerealia, cereals, viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots, festal board, ambrosia, good cheer, good living, beef, bisquit, bun, cornstarch, cookie, cooky, cracker, doughnut, fatling, hardtack, hoecake, hominy, mutton, pilot bread, pork, roti, rusk, ship biscuit, veal, joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled, remove, entremet, releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince, pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat, pie, pasty, volauvent, pudding, omelet, pastry, sweets, kickshaws, condiment, appetizer, hors d'oeuvre, main course, entree, alligator pear, apple, apple slump, artichoke, ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack, atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak, beet root, blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey, chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut, table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree, meal, repast, feed, spread, mess, dish, plate, course, regale, regalement, refreshment, entertainment, refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket, breakfast, lunch, luncheon, dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert, potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette, hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal, blowout, light refreshment, bara, chotahazri, bara khana, mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet, drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup, potion, dram, draught, drench, swill, nip, sip, sup, gulp, wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet, grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail, gin, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates, bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer, Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep, near beer, 2 beer, non- alcoholic beverage, eating house, diner, hippophage, glutton, eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary, cereal, cibarious, dietetic, culinary, nutritive, nutritious, gastric, succulent, potable, potulent, bibulous, omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous, ichthyivorous, omophagic, omophagous, pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous, across the walnuts and the wine, blessed hour of our dinners!, now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!, who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?.

Fluidity

N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.