Strong, one of the commissioners, was granted a license to keep a grocery and "vend spiritous liquors at retail for one year at his house near Marion by paying into the county treasury the sum of $50.
Materials dark and crude, Of spiritous and fiery spume.
Defn: To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess.
Spiritous liquors, when taken in large quantities, not unfrequently produce fatal effects.
If the process be continued, the distilled product becomes milky, scarcely spiritous to the smell, and of an acidulous taste.
Roach, or Roman alum, is also employed, without any other addition, for clarifying spiritous liquors.
For it is by no means an uncommon occurrence to meet with brandy, rum, and other spiritous liquors, of a specific gravity very much below the pretended strength which the liquor ought to possess.
It is necessary to understand this absurd language, which is in use amongst the officers of Excise and dealers in spirit, in order to know what is meant in commerce by the strength of spiritous liquors of different denominations.
Its flavour will vary according to the kind of spiritous liquor from which it is obtained.
We have, therefore, a ready check against the frauds of the dishonest dealers, in spiritous liquors.
To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess.
The manner in which wine, cyder, mead, and all the liquors formed by the spiritous fermentation, are produced, is well known to every one.
In distillations, especially of spiritous liquors, the capital must be furnished with a refrigetory, SS, Fig.
Spiritous liquors may be clarified in the same manner by means of isinglass dissolved in water, which coagulates by the action of the alkohol without the assistance of heat.
But their character has been still more debased by the passion for spiritous liquors so assiduously fostered among them.
Fond too as a Cree is of spiritous liquors he is not happy unless all his neighbours partake with him.
The moral character of a hunter is acted upon by the nature of the land he inhabits, the abundance or scarcity of food, and we may add, in the present case, his means of access to spiritous liquors.
The excise upon home-made fermented and spiritous liquors the most productive, 376.
The different taxes which, in Great Britain, have, in the course of the present century, been imposed uponspiritous liquors, are not supposed to have had any effect upon the wages of labour.
The taxes upon ale, wine, and spiritous liquors, which are advanced by the dealers, are finally paid by the different consumers, exactly in proportion to their respective consumption.
Fermented liquors brewed, and spiritous liquors distilled, not for sale, but for private use, are not in Great Britain liable to any duties of excise.
The medical use of raisins is, their imparting a very pleasant flavour both to aqueous and spiritous menstrua.
The berries are used in preparing the well-known spiritous liquor gin, and have been considered of great use in medicine.
Tournefort recommends a spiritous tincture, others a decoction in water, and others a conserve of the leaves, as of wonderful efficacy in uterine disorders.
There is no distinct line of separation between the gasoline that first comes from the condenser and that which comes over after the temperature is raised, except that it is less of a spiritous nature and contains more oily matter.
As the temperature of the retort is gradually raised, the distillate contains less and less of the spiritous and constantly more of the oily matter.
The crude oil is placed in the still and heated; the distillate that first comes from the condenser, at the lowest temperature of the still, is gasoline of a light spiritous nature.
In brewing small quantities of strong beer, this contrivance supersedes the necessity of fermenting tuns, or troughs, no small saving of expense, whilst it makes the beer more spiritous and preserving.
Spiritous liquors might remain as dear as ever; while, at the same time, the wholesome and invigorating liquors of beer and ale might be considerably reduced in their price.
It has for some time past been the policy of Great Britain to discourage the consumption of spiritous liquors, on account of their supposed tendency to ruin the health and to corrupt the morals of the common people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiritous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
