2. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
Noah awoke from his wine. Gen. ix. 24.
Birch wine, Cape wine, etc. See under Birch, Cape, etc.
— Spirit of wine. See under Spirit.
— To have drunk wine of ape or wine ape, to be so drunk as to be
foolish. [Obs.] Chaucer.
— Wine acid. (Chem.) See Tartaric acid, under Tartaric. [Colloq.] -
- Wine apple (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich,
vinous flavor.
— Wine bag, a wine skin.
— Wine biscuit, a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine.
— Wine cask, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held,
wine.
— Wine cellar, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine.
— Wine cooler, a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by
the evaporation of water; also, a stand for wine bottles, containing
ice.a drink composed of approximately equal parts of wine and some
carbonated beverage (soda). Also called California cooler.
— Wine fly (Zoöl.), small two-winged fly of the genus Piophila,
whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other fermented liquors.
— Wine grower, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine.
— Wine measure, the measure by which wines and other spirits are
sold, smaller than beer measure.
— Wine merchant, a merchant who deals in wines.
— Wine of opium (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized sherry
wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; — also
Sydenham's laudanum.
— Wine press, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to
extract their juice.
— Wine skin, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various countries,
for carrying wine.
— Wine stone, a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See 1st
Tartar, 1.
— Wine vault. (a) A vault where wine is stored. (b) A place where
wine is served at the bar, or at tables; a dramshop. Dickens.
— Wine vinegar, vinegar made from wine.
— Wine whey, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of wine.
WINEBERRY Wine"ber`ry, n. (Bot.) (a) The red currant. (b) The bilberry. (c) A peculiar New Zealand shrub (Coriaria ruscifolia), in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made. The plant also grows in Chili.
WINEBIBBER
Wine"bib`ber, n.
Defn: One who drinks much wine. Prov. xxiii. 20.
— Wine"bib`bing, n.
WINEGLASS
Wine"glass`, n.
Defn: A small glass from to drink wine.
WINEGLASSFUL
Wine"glass`ful;, n. pl. Wineglassfuls (.
Defn: As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass.
It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.
WINELESS
Wine"less, a.