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liq⋅uor

[lik-er or, for 3, lik-wawr]

–noun

1.	a distilled or spirituous beverage, as brandy or whiskey, as distinguished from a fermented beverage, as wine or beer.

2.	any liquid substance, as broth from cooked meats or vegetables.

3.	Pharmacology. solution (def. 6).

4.	a solution of a substance, esp. a concentrated one used in the industrial arts.

–verb (used with object)

5.	Informal. to furnish or ply with liquor to drink (often fol. by up).

–verb (used without object)

6.	Informal. to drink large quantities of liquor (often fol. by up).

Origin:
1175–1225; < L: a liquid, orig. liquidity (liqu(ēre) to be liquid + -or -or ¹ ); r. ME lic(o)ur < OF (F liqueur) < L liquōrem, acc. of liquor

Related forms:

liq⋅uor⋅y, adjective

Synonyms:
2. juice, drippings.

so⋅lu⋅tion

[suh-loo-shuh

–noun

1.	the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.

2.	the state of being solved: a problem capable of solution.

3.	a particular instance or method of solving; an explanation or answer: The solution is as good as any other.

Mathematics.

a.	the process of determining the answer to a problem.

b.	the answer itself.

Chemistry.

a.	the process by which a gas, liquid, or solid is dispersed homogeneously in a gas, liquid, or solid without chemical change.

b.	such a substance, as dissolved sugar or salt in solution.

c.	a homogeneous, molecular mixture of two or more substances.

6.	Pharmacology. Also called liquor. a liquid, usually water, in which a medication is dissolved.

Medicine/Medical.

a.	the termination of a disease.

b.	a breach or break in anything, esp. one in parts of the body normally continuous, as from fracture or laceration: solution of continuity.

Origin:
1325–75; ME < L solūtiōn- (s. of solūtiō), equiv. to solūt(us) (see solute ) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms:

so⋅lu⋅tion⋅al, adjective

Synonyms:
3. key, resolution.

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liq·uor (lĭk'ər)

An alcoholic beverage made by distillation rather than by fermentation.
A rich broth resulting from the prolonged cooking of meat or vegetables, especially greens. Also called pot liquor.
An aqueous solution of a nonvolatile substance.
A solution, emulsion, or suspension for industrial use.

tr.v. liq·uored, liq·uor·ing, liq·uors

To steep (malt, for example).
Slang To make drunk with alcoholic liquor. Often used with up: was all liquored up.

[Middle English licour, a liquid, from Old French, from Latin liquor, from liquēre, to be liquid.]

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Liquor

Liq"uor\ (l[i^]k"[~e]r), n. [OE. licour, licur, OF. licur, F. liqueur, fr. L. liquor, fr. liquere to be liquid. See Liquid, and cf. Liqueur.]

1. Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.

2. Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.

3. (Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.

Note: The U. S. Pharmacop[oe]ia includes, in this class of preparations, all aqueous solutions without sugar, in which the substance acted on is wholly soluble in water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter is gaseous or very volatile, as in the aqu[ae] or waters. --U. S. Disp.

Labarraque's liquor (Old Chem.), a solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant.

Liquor of flints, or Liquor silicum (Old Chem.), soluble glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under Glass.

Liquor of Libavius. (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming.

Liquor sanguinis (s[a^]n"gw[i^]n*[i^]s) (Physiol.), the blood plasma.

Liquor thief, a tube for taking samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole.

To be in liquor, to be intoxicated.

Liquor

Liq"uor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquored (-[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquoring.]

1. To supply with liquor. [R.]

2. To grease. [Obs.] --Bacon.

Liquor fishermen's boots. --Shak.

Language Translation for : liquor

Spanish: licor, bebida alcohólica,

German: alkoholisches Getränk,

Japanese: 酒類

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liquor

1225, likur "any matter in a liquid state," from O.Fr. licour, from L. liquorem (nom. liquor) "liquid, liquidity," from liquere "be fluid." Sense of "fermented or distilled drink" (especially wine) first recorded c.1300. To liquor up "get drunk" is from 1845.

Main Entry: li·quor
Pronunciation: 'lik-&r
Function: noun
: a liquid substance: as a : a usually distilled rather than fermentedalcoholic beverage b : a solution of a medicinal substance usually in water —compare TINCTURE c : BATH 2b(1)

liquor liq·uor (lĭk'ər)
n.

An aqueous solution, especially of a medicinal substance.
An alcoholic beverage made by distillation rather than by fermentation.
(lī'kwôr, lĭk'wôr) In anatomical nomenclature, a term for any of several body fluids.

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