Definition of alcohol

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Alcohol (n.) Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation..

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Alcoholic :: Alcoholic (n.) A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.
Sycoceryl :: Sycoceric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of sycoceryl alcohol..
Dipsomaniac :: Dipsomaniac (n.) One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
Vanillyl :: Vanillyl (n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.
Miscible :: Miscible (a.) Capable of being mixed; mixable; as, water and alcohol are miscible in all proportions..
Saccharomyces :: Saccharomyces (n.) A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula..
Alcoholized :: Alcoholized (imp. & p. p.) of Alcoholiz.
Hyaline :: Hyaline (n.) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation..
Zymome :: Zymome (n.) A glutinous substance, insoluble in alcohol, resembling legumin; -- now called vegetable fibrin, vegetable albumin, or gluten casein..
Methylate :: Methylate (n.) An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa..
Bead Proof :: Bead proof () A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken..
Dehydrate :: Dehydrate (v. t.) To deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol..
Proof :: Proof (a.) Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
#NAME? :: -ol () A suffix denoting that the substance in the name of which it appears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydroxyl derivatives, as carbinol, glycerol, etc..
Cerebrin :: Cerebrin (n.) A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance..
Underproof :: Underproof (a.) Containing less alcohol than proof spirit. See Proof spirit, under Spirit..
Alcoholometry :: Alcoholometry (n.) The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.
Oxidize :: Oxidize (v. t.) To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of oxygen; as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde..
Alcohol :: Alcohol (n.) An impalpable powder.
Propylic :: Propylic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as, propylic alcohol..
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