'Liquor' definitions:

Definition of 'liquor'

(from WordNet)
noun
An alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented [syn: liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink]
noun
A liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; "waste liquors"
noun
The liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked [syn: liquor, pot liquor, pot likker]

Definition of 'Liquor'

From: GCIDE
  • Liquor \Liq"uor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquored (l[i^]k"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquoring.]
  • 1. To supply with liquor. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To grease. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • Liquor fishermen's boots. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Liquor'

From: GCIDE
  • Liquor \Liq"uor\ (l[i^]k"[~e]r), n. [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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua. [1913 Webster]
  • 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 aqu[ae] or waters. --U. S. Disp. [1913 Webster]
  • 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 (s[a^]n"gw[i^]n*[i^]s), (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. [1913 Webster]