white liquor

noun

(in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.

With the boy at the door, Hale rolled the hand-barrel to the threshold and the white liquor gurgled joyously on the steps.

She noticed that he had a medicine glass in his hand, half-filled with a milky-white liquor.

He opened her teeth with the blade of a knife, and poured down her throat a few drops of a clear white liquor.

And, oh, Doctor Mac, he has promised me never to make white liquor again.

The judge reached for his saddle-pockets and pulled out a bottle of white liquor with a stopper of corn-shucks.

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