kirsch-wasser

(kirsh’vos“ér),n. [G., =E. cherry, + wa er= EH. water.] A spirituous liquor obtained by distilling the fruit of Prunus avium, a European wild cherry. The best quality is a powerful spirit, with a delicate perfume and flavor like bitter almond. It is manufactured in the Vosges and the Black Forest, chiefly and best in the latter locality. It is almost free from sweetne , and is as colorle as water, but somewhat thick and syrupy, and has singular power of refracting light, which makes it brilliant in the gla . kirsomt, x. A corruption of chrisom, for chrism. Also used blunderingly for *kirsen, for Christian. AsTam atrue kirsome woman, it is one of the crystal gla es my cousin sent me. Beau. and Fl., Coxcomb, iy. 7. kirsten, kirsen (kérs’tn, kér’sn), v. ¢. [Like kersen, a corruption of christen.] To christen; baptize. [Obsolete or Scotch. ] Why, ’tis thirty year e’en as this day now, Zin Valentine’s day, of all days kursin'd. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 2. kirtle! (kér’tl), ». [Formerly also curtel; E. curt, kirt = D. kort = G. kurz, ete.), short: see curt, short, shirt, skirt.] 1. In former use, a garment of which the form and purpose varied at different times. (a) A tunic or undergarment; a shirt. (0) A close-fitting gown for women, which sometimes was called a long kirtle and had a train. (c) A garment like a doublet for men. (d) A cloak. (e) A monk’s gown. Coat and kirtle are mentioned together in the middle of the seventeenth century as forming a woman’s costume: as, a tawny camlet coat and kirtle cost £10 178. In this case /ri7tle is evidently the petticoat, or the garment worn under the coat. See Aalf-kirtle, and full kirtle, below. A knights wife may haue her kirtle borne in her owne howse, or in any other place, so it be not in her betters presence. Booke of Precedence (E, H. T. S., extra ser.), i. 19, In skerlet /yrtells over one, The cokwoldes stodyn euerychon, Redy vnto the dansyng. The Horn of King Arthur (Child’s Ballads, I. 28), Ben it came the Mayor’s dauchters, Wi’ kirtle coat alone; Their eyes did sparkle like the gold, As they tripped on the stone. The Clerk's Twa Sons o’ Owsen ford (Child’s Ballads, II. 67), 636 kirtle This side le kirtle or cote-hard i continued to enjoy unabated favour for not much le than two centuries, Eneye. Brit., V1. 467. 2. An outer petticoat. Hall i well. (Prov. Eng.] Folded her kirtle over her head, And sped away like a startled doe. R. T. Cooke. 3+. A coat or layer of plaster. The kirtils doo theron of marble greyne, But first lete oon be drie. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 16. Full kirtle, the larger kirtle, either coat or petticoat: so called in contradistinction to halj-kirtle. kirtle! (kér’tl), v.¢.; pret. and pp. kirtled, ppr. kirtling. [