Word Meanings - BREWAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Malt liquor; drink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.

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• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• BREWER
  One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
• SPICULA
  A little spike; a spikelet. A pointed fleshy appendage.
• SPICEWOOD
  An American shrub , the bark of which has a spicy taste and odor; -- called also Benjamin, wild allspice, and fever bush.
• SPICULISPONGIAE
  A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.
• LIQUORISH
  See SHAK
• BREWHOUSE
  A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.
• SPICATE; SPICATED
  Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes. Lee.
• DRINKER
  One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
• SPICEBUSH
  Spicewood.
• SPICULIFORM
  Having the shape of a spicule.
• LIQUORICE
  See LICORICE
• BREWAGE
  Malt liquor; drink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.
• DRINKABLENESS
  State of being drinkable.
• BREWSTERITE
  A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia.
• SPICA
  A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
• SPICK
  A spike or nail. Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• SPICULIGENOUS
  Producing or containing spicules.
• BREW
  briuwen, br, G. brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. to prepare by heat. sq. 1. To boil or seethe; to cook. 2. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other
• PROSPICIENCE
  The act of looking forward.
• HOSPICE
  A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard. (more info) strangers are entertained, fr. hospes stranger, guest. See
• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• ALLSPICE
  The berry of the pimento , a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• HELLBREWED
  Prepared in hell. Milton.
• AUSPICIAL
  Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious.
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• HARUSPICATION
  See TYLOR