window tax, window duty

A tax formerly imposed in Britain on all windows in houses (latterly above six in number). It was abolished in 1851, a tax on houses above a certain rental being substituted. *win-dōw, v . t . [WINDOW, 8.] 1. To furnish with windows. 2. To set or place in or at a window. "Would'st thou be window'd in great Rome, and see Thy master thus?" Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , iv. 12. win-dowed, a. [Eng. window , s.; -ed.] IMG:content-0934.png:[blocks in formation] *windy-footed, a. Swift as the wind. "The windy - footed dame." Chapman: Homer's Iliad , xv. 163. wine, *win, *wyn, *wyne, subst . [A. S. win , from Lat. vinum =wine; cogn. with Goth. we in ; O. H. Ger. win ; Icel. vin ; Dut. wijn ; Ger.we in ; Sw.vin Dan, viin ; Gr. oinos wine; oine the vine; O. Ir. 1. Lit .: Furnished with or having a window or fin =wine. From the same root as withy .] windows. "The whole room was windowed round about."-Re liquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 46. *2. Fig .: Having many openings or rents. "Your loop'd and window'd raggedne ." Shakesp.: Lear, iii. 4. I. Ordinary Language: 1. In the same sense as II. vin: 2. The juice of certain fruits prepared in imitation of wine obtained from grapes, but distinguished by naming the source from whence obtained; as, gooseberry wine , currant wine , . density of from 1065.0 to 11540, and contains from 15 to 33 per cent. of sugar. It develops within itself the yeast nece ary for the fermentative proce , and the action is allowed to proceed until nearly all the sugar has been changed into alcohol and carbonic anhydride. The stronger wines, such as sherry and port, are nearly always fortified for foreign markets by the addition of refined alcohol. The term wine is also applied to various fermented extracts of fruit-e. g., currant and elderberry wines. Besides alcohol, wine contains sugar, bitartrate of potash, odoriferous matter, with small quantities of tannin, gum, acetic and malic acids, lime, . The specific gravity of wine varies from 1970 to 1.045. The following proportions of alcohol have been found in wines of the under-mentioned descriptions: IMG:content-0935.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Pharm . ( pl .): Medicinal preparations in some respects resembling wine. Sherry is generally employed as the menstruum. There is thus le alcochol in them than in tinctures (q. v.), but enough to prevent their decomposition. (1) Oil of wine : Ethereal oil, a reputed anodyne, but only used in the preparation of other compounds. (2) Quinine wine: Sherry holding sulphate of quinine in solution. (3) Spirit of wine: Alcohol (q. v.). (4) Wine of iron ( Vinum ferri): [STEEL-WINE.] *wine-bag, 8. IMG:content-0936.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Various species of Ribes, spec. Ribes rubrum , R. nigrum, and R. gro ular i a. ( Britten & Hol land .) 2. Vaccinum vitis - idæa ( Britten & Holland ) and V. myrtillus. The last-named species is so called because wine was formerly made from it in England, as it still is in Ru ia. ( Prior .) wine-biscuit, subst. A light biscuit served with wine.