Word Meanings - BREWAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Malt liquor; drink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay.
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- DRINKABLE
Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele. - BREWER
One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors. - SPICULA
A little spike; a spikelet. A pointed fleshy appendage. - SPICEWOOD
An American shrub , the bark of which has a spicy taste and odor; -- called also Benjamin, wild allspice, and fever bush. - SPICULISPONGIAE
A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules. - LIQUORISH
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A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery. - SPICATE; SPICATED
Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes. Lee. - DRINKER
One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth . - SPICEBUSH
Spicewood. - SPICULIFORM
Having the shape of a spicule. - LIQUORICE
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Malt liquor; drink brewed. "Some well-spiced brewage." Milton. A rich brewage, made of the best Spanish wine. Macaulay. - DRINKABLENESS
State of being drinkable. - BREWSTERITE
A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia. - SPICA
A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley. - SPICK
A spike or nail. Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell. - DRINK
p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching - SPICULIGENOUS
Producing or containing spicules. - BREW
briuwen, br, G. brauen, Icel. brugga, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and perh. to L. defrutum must boiled down, Gr. to prepare by heat. sq. 1. To boil or seethe; to cook. 2. To prepare, as beer or other liquor, from malt and hops, or from other - PROSPICIENCE
The act of looking forward. - AUSPICIOUS
1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. - HOSPICE
A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard. (more info) strangers are entertained, fr. hospes stranger, guest. See - ALLSPICE
The berry of the pimento , a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name - OVERDRINK
To drink to excess. - HELLBREWED
Prepared in hell. Milton. - AUSPICIAL
Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious. - CONSPICUOUS
1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess - DESPICABLE
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible. - HARUSPICATION
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