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Spirits of wine   /spˈɪrɪts əv waɪn/   Listen
Spirits of wine

noun
1.
Rectified ethyl alcohol.






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"Spirits of wine" Quotes from Famous Books



... sometime use them as medicine. Her Majesty told me this, so that day I went all over everywhere and dug into the ground, but found nothing. The usual custom was that at noon Her Majesty took a small cup filled with spirits of wine, and added a kind of yellow powder (something like sulphur). She took a small brush and dipped it into the cup and made a few spots of this yellow paint under our nostrils and ears. This was to prevent any insects from crawling on us during the coming summer. The reason why it ...
— Two Years in the Forbidden City • The Princess Der Ling

... four drams of sulphuret of antimony. Powder the sulphuret of antimony and chlorate of potash separately in a mortar, and mix them on paper; after which add them to the other ingredients, previously powdered and mixed. For use, mix with a portion of the powder a small quantity of spirits of wine, in a tin pan resembling a cheese-toaster; light the mixture, and it will shed a rich crimson hue. When the fire burns dim and badly, a very small quantity of finely-powdered charcoal or lamp-black will revive it. This light is used in finale scenes, where the subject ...
— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head



Words linked to "Spirits of wine" :   grain alcohol, ethyl alcohol, fermentation alcohol, ethanol



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