Word Meanings - LIQUOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua. Note: The U. S. Pharmacopoeia includes, in this class of preparations, all aqueous solutions without sugar, in which the substance acted on is wholly soluble
Additional info about word: LIQUOR
A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua. Note: 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 aquƦ or waters. U. S. Disp. Labarraque's liquor , a solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant. -- Liquor of flints, or Liquor silicum , 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. (more info) 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.
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- ACTURE
Action. Shak. - SUGARPLUM
A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks. - ACTURIENCE
Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote. - CLASSIFIC
Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - ACTINOLITE
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses. - ACTINOSTOME
The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal. - CLASSIFICATORY
Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle. - WATERWORT
Any plant of the natural order ElatineƦ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste. - WATER SHREW
Any one of several species of shrews having fringed feet and capable of swimming actively. The two common European species are the best known. The most common American water shrew, or marsh shrew , is rarely seen, owing to its nocturnal habits. - ACTINARIA
A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. - CLASSICISM
A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley. - WATER-TIGHT
So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky. - WATER RAT
The water vole. See under Vole. The muskrat. The beaver rat. See under Beaver. 2. A thief on the water; a pirate. - ACTUARIAL
Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity. - WATER CRAKE
The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia. - WATER DOG
A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained. - WATER SAIL
A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water. - WATER CLOCK
An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra. - ACTUALIZE
To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge. - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - HEMIDACTYL
Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - PHYLACTERED
Wearing a phylactery. - MONSEL'S SOLUTION
An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - INACTUATE
To put in action. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form