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Wine merchant   /waɪn mˈərtʃənt/   Listen
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Wine  n.  
1.
The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red wine of Gascoigne." "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." "Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine." Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol, containing also certain small quantities of ethers and ethereal salts which give character and bouquet. According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines are called red, white, spirituous, dry, light, still, etc.
2.
A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
3.
The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication. "Noah awoke from his wine."
Birch wine, Cape wine, etc. See under Birch, Cape, etc.
Spirit of wine. See under Spirit.
To have drunk wine of ape or To have drunk wine ape, to be so drunk as to be foolish. (Obs.)
Wine acid. (Chem.) See Tartaric acid, under Tartaric. (Colloq.)
Wine apple (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor.
Wine bag, a wine skin.
Wine biscuit, a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine.
Wine cask, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held, wine.
Wine cellar, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine.
Wine cooler, a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a stand for wine bottles, containing ice.
Wine fly (Zool.), small two-winged fly of the genus Piophila, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other fermented liquors.
Wine grower, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine.
Wine measure, the measure by which wines and other spirits are sold, smaller than beer measure.
Wine merchant, a merchant who deals in wines.
Wine of opium (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; also Sydenham's laudanum.
Wine press, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to extract their juice.
Wine skin, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various countries, for carrying wine.
Wine stone, a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See 1st Tartar, 1.
Wine vault.
(a)
A vault where wine is stored.
(b)
A place where wine is served at the bar, or at tables; a dramshop.
Wine vinegar, vinegar made from wine.
Wine whey, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of wine.





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"Wine merchant" Quotes from Famous Books



... told comic stories and talked with good temper about Home Rule, to which he was opposed; and a splendid old man, with his wife, who was interested in co-operation and was eager to limit armaments; and a wine merchant from Liverpool who had come to the conclusion that the world, on the whole, was quite a decent place to live in; and a dreadful little stockbroker who belonged to the Bloody school of politicians and talked about the Empire as if it were ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... saw daily the shipman of the Canterbury Tales just home in his good ship Maudelayne, with the fascination of unknown lands in his clothes and conversation. Of his education we know nothing, except that he was a great reader. His father was a wine merchant, purveyor to the royal household, and from this accidental relation between trade and royalty may have arisen the fact that at seventeen years Chaucer was made page to the Princess Elizabeth. This was the beginning of his ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long
... of great good sense and shrewdness, and altogether one of those personages of whom, whether real or imaginary, one reads with pleasure—stands Madame Bonvalot, or de Bonvalot, as she best loves to be styled, the parvenue widow of a Bordeaux wine merchant. Her beautiful and amiable daughter, an excellent model of a virtuous French lady, gracefully and delicately drawn, is married to the Marquis of Chateaugiron. The mother, an affected, frivolous, rouged, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various
... of all to a restaurateur. She told the maid to say that her son was of age, and that she was not his cashier. There was another ring— the maid reappeared with a second bill, which had also been brought the day before. It was from a well-known wine merchant; this, too, was not a small one. Another ring; this time it was a bill for flowers and by no means a trifle. This, too, had been brought the day before. Fru Kaas read it twice, three times, four times: she could not realise that Rafael owed money ...
— Absalom's Hair • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
... was $200 per month. On pay day, after calculating the amounts due for rent, instalments on furniture and piano, gas, and bills owed to the florist, confectioner, milliner, tailor, wine merchant and cab company, the Turpins would find that they still had $200 left to spend. How to do this is one of the ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry


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