Liq"uor , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquored
(-&etilde;rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquoring.]
1.
To supply with liquor. [R.]
2. To
grease. [Obs.] Bacon.
Liquor fishermen's boots.
Shak.
Liq"uor (l&ibreve;k"&etilde;r), n. [OE. licour,
licur, OF. licur, F.
liqueur, fr. L. liquor, fr. liquere to
be liquid. See Liquid, and cf. Liqueur.]
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.
(Pharm.) A solution of a
medicinal substance
in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.
&fist; The U. S.
Pharmacopœia 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.
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 (săn"gw&ibreve;n*&ibreve;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.
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