Liquor /(lĭk"ẽr)/

Liq·uor

Liquor

n.
  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. A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua. (Pharm.)

Phrases & Compounds
Labarraque's liquor
a solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant.
Liquor of flints
soluble glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under Glass.
Liquor of Libavius
See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming.
Liquor sanguinis
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.

imp. & p. p. Liquored; p. pr. & vb. n. Liquoring

  1. To supply with liquor. [R.]
  2. To grease. [Obs.]
    Liquor fishermen's boots.