liquor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English licour, from Anglo-Norman licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity, liquidness, a fluid, a liquid”), from liquere (“to be fluid or liquid”); see liquid. Doublet of liqueur.
Inflected forms:
form: liquors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: liquour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: liqa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: liquuh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: liquors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: liquoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: liquored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: liquored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: liquour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: liqa
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: liquuh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A liquid, a fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Thus Water also, or any other Liquor, included in a convenient vessel, by being warmed, manifestly expands it self with a very great violence […]
Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
gloss: A beverage, any drinkable liquid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: Strong (high-ABV) alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
countable
uncountable
examples: Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors.
gloss: Any alcoholic beverage.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A liquid in which something has been steeped.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To drink liquor, usually to excess.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To grease.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Liquor fishermen's boots.
cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored
Related words: liqueur
liquid
liquidate
liquidation
liquidator
liquidity
liquidizer
Derived words: antiliquor
black liquor
call liquor
chocolate liquor
corn liquor
fatliquor
hard liquor
hold one's liquor
in liquor
iron liquor
Labarraque's liquor
liquor amnii
liquor commission
liquorer
liquor gauge
liquorist
liquorless
liquor licence
liquorlike
liquor lounge
liquor of flints
liquor sanguinis
liquor silicum
liquor store
liquor thief
liquor up
liquory
malt liquor
mother liquor
red liquor
sea liquor
state liquor agency
tan liquor
tin liquor
well liquor
worse for liquor
liquored up
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