Word Meanings - BARLEY-BREE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.

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• BARLEY-BREE
  Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• LIQUORISH
  See SHAK
• STRONGYLID
  Strongyloid.
• LIQUORICE
  See LICORICE
• BARLEYCORN
  1. A grain or "corn" of barley. 2. Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.
• STRONG
  strong; akin to D. & G. streng strict, rigorous, OHG. strengi strong, brave, harsh, Icel. strangr strong, severe, Dan. streng, Sw. sträng 1. Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily
• STRONGLY
  In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
• STRONG-WATER
  1. An acid. 2. Distilled or ardent spirits; intoxicating liquor.
• STRONGHOLD
  A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security.
• LIQUOROUS
  Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish. Marston.
• BARLEY
  A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird , the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction
• STRONGHAND
  Violence; force; power. It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand. Sir W. Raleigh.
• STRONGISH
  Somewhat strong.
• BARLEYBRAKE; BARLEYBREAK
  An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.
• STRONG-MINDED
  Having a vigorous mind; esp., having or affecting masculine qualities of mind; -- said of women. -- Strong"-mind`ed*ness, n.
• 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
• BURNSTICKLE
  A stickleback .
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• HEADSTRONGNESS
  Obstinacy. Gayton.
• UNLIQUORED
  1. Not moistened or wet with liquor; dry. "Unliquored coach." Bp. Hall. 2. Not in liquor; not intoxicated; sober. Like an unliquored Silenus. Milton.