Word Meanings - ALCOHOLIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To reduce to a fine powder. Johnson. 2. To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol.

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• POWDERY
  1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• POWDERED
  See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• ALCOHOLIZATION
  1. The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. Johnson. 2. The act rectifying spirit. 3. Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• ALCOHOL
  A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol ; methyl forms methyl alcohol or wood spirit; amyl forms
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• ALCOHOLISM
  A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.
• POWDER-POSTED
  Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• RECTIFY
  To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine. (more info) 1. To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false
• CONVERTEND
  Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
• POWDERHORN
  A horn in which gunpowder is carried.
• ALCOHOLIC
  Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.
• JOHNSON GRASS
  A tall perennial grass , valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
• JOHNSONIAN
  Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
• POWDERFLASK
  A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCONVERTED
  1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• BEPOWDER
  To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.
• SUPERSATURATE
  To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• GOA POWDER
  A bitter powder found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.
• ATLAS POWDER
  A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.