liquor, pot liquor, pot likker
(noun) the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked
liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink
(noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
liquor
(noun) a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; “waste liquors”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
liquor (countable and uncountable, plural liquors)
(obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
(obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
(UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
(chiefly, US) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.
In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
A liquid in which something has been steeped.
• (strong alcoholic drink): spirits (British and Australasian English)
• (liquid obtained by cooking food): stock, pot liquor (American English), broth, bouillon
liquor (third-person singular simple present liquors, present participle liquoring, simple past and past participle liquored)
(intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
(transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
(obsolete, transitive) To grease.
Source: Wiktionary
Liq"uor, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: 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 in water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter is gaseous or very volatile, as in the aquæ 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 (, (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.
Liq"uor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquored; p. pr. & vb. n. Liquoring.]
1. To supply with liquor. [R.]
2. To grease. [Obs.] Bacon. Liquor fishermen's boots. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 June 2025
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
