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Alcohol

noun

A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent. Synonyms: alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant.

Any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation.

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"Alcohol" Quotes from Famous Books

... the whispers of Tighe. He brooded over them, but he did not act on them. His alcohol-dulled brain told him that he had reached the limit of public sufferance. One more killing by him, and he would pay the penalty at the hands of the law. When he took his revenge, it must be done so secretly that no evidence could connect him with the ...

— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine

... account of the organization and methods of the Anti-Saloon League, a thoroughly typical Puritan engine, is to be found in Alcohol and Society, by John Koren; New York, Henry Holt ...

— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken

... A current of electricity passed through impure alcohol between zinc electrodes is found to improve its quality. This it does by decomposing the water present. The nascent hydrogen combines with the aldehydes, converting them into alcohols while the oxygen ...

— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone

... natural forces control its workings. Clearly the examination of the matter of fact is independent of the question of method. For just as the chemist may experiment with various substances to see if they will dissolve in water and not in alcohol before it is necessary or desirable for him to take up the further studies of the laws of solution, so reasonable grounds must be found for regarding evolution as true before passing to its method of accomplishment. And in the following discussions, ...

— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

... hair might or might not be graying. Pink-shaved, unlined, nose-glasses polished to sparkle, he was ten years his wife's senior and looked those ten years younger. Clerks and clergymen somehow maintain that youth of the flesh, as if life had preserved them in alcohol or shaving-lotion. Mrs. Ross entered then in her crisp but faded house dress, her round, intent face still moistly pink, two ...

— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

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