Wine

wīn, n. the fermented juice of the grape: a liquor made from other fruits: ( fig. ) intoxication: a wine-drinking, a wine-party.— ns. Wine′-bag , a wine-skin: a tippler; Wine′-bibb′er , a bibber or drinker of wine: a drunkard; Wine′-bibb′ing ; Wine′-bis′cuit , a sweet biscuit intended to be served with wine; Wine′-cask , a cask for holding wine; Wine′-cell′ar , a cellar for storing wine.— adj. Wine′-col′oured , of the colour of red wine.— ns. Wine′-cool′er , a receptacle for cooling wine in bottles about to be served at table; Wine′-fat , the vat receiving the liquor from a wine-pre ; Wine′-gla , a small gla used in drinking wine; Wine′-gla ′ful ; Wine′-grow′er , one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine; Wine′-me as′ure , an old English liquid measure, its gallon 5 ⁄ 6 of the gallon in beer-measure, containing 231 cubic inches—the standard United States gallon; Wine′-mer′chant , a merchant who deals in wine, esp. at wholesale; Wine′-par′ty , a drinking-party; Wine′-pre , a machine in which grapes are pre ed in the manufacture of wine; Wine′-skin , a skin for holding wine; Wine′-stone , crude argol; Wine′-tāst′er , one whose busine it is to sample wines; Wine′-vault , a vaulted wine-cellar: ( pl. ) a place where wine is tasted or drunk.— Adam's wine , water; Rhine , Rhenish , wine , wine produced on the banks of the Rhine , esp. hock; Spirit of wine , alcohol; White wine , Chablis, Sauterne, the wines of Germany—formerly Madeira and sherry. [A.S. wín ; Goth, we in , Ger. we in ; all from L. vinum ; cog. with Gr. oinos .]