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vinous, a.|ˈvaɪnəs|
[ad. L. vīnōs-us, f. vīnum wine: cf. vinose a. and F. vineux (OF. vineus).]
1. Of the nature of wine; having the qualities of wine; tasting or smelling like wine; made of, or prepared with, wine.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 65 The fermentation and heat presently appears, with a kind of vinous steam. 1680Boyle Exp. Chem. Princ. i. 26 Fermentation rarefy's the oyly parts of the Juice of Grapes, and subtilizes them into vinous spirits. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 114/2 So will the Liquor be Vinous in Smell, and more delicious in Taste. 1713J. Warder True Amazons 156 The most wholesome of all the Vinous Liquors in the World. 1741C. Middleton Cicero I. iv. 324 He was obliged, he said, to take some vinous medicines. 1818Accum Chem. Tests 72 All vinous fluids, even the mildest, contain a portion of a free acid. 1856N. Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. I. 242 They would perhaps have preferred a vinous potation. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. iii. §2. 154 John was deprived from his birth of all vinous stimulus.
b. Producing wine or similar liquor. rare.
1676Worlidge (title), Vinetum Britannicum: or, a Treatise of Cider;..Together with the Method of Propagating all sorts of Vinous Fruit-Trees. 1708Ozell tr. Bolleau's Lutrin 41 Burgundia's vinous Fields she hovers round.
2. Pertaining to, characteristic of, wine.
1708J. Philips Cyder ii. 106 Water will imbibe The small Remains of Spirit, and acquire A vinous Flavour. 1719London & Wise Compl. Gard. 78 It has a vinous and delicious Taste. 1775Sir E. Barry Observ. Wines Ancients 9 A more rich and sweet taste than is natural to them in a recent true vinous state. 1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 173 An accumulation of blood..which..tinges the lungs of a livid or vinous colour.
b. vinous fermentation: (see quot. 1857).
1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iii. §2. 220 All Liquors which have undergone vinous Fermentation..have a Mark set upon them as dangerous. c1791Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VII. 216/1 When the vinous fermentation was finished, the liquor..was found converted into vinegar. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 502 The vinous fermentation never takes place except in substances containing sugar, and it is most remarkable in those which contain the most of the saccharine principle. 1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. 102 When spirit of wine is formed from sugar, the change is called the alcoholic or vinous fermentation.
fig.1870Lowell Among my Books Ser. i. 147 The Reformation had passed the period of its vinous fermentation.
3. Caused or produced by, resulting from, indulgence in wine.
1776Johnson in Boswell 12 Apr., I have heard none of those drunken,—nay, drunken is a coarse word,—none of those vinous flights. 1818Scott Rob Roy xii, It has even been reported by maligners, that I sung a song while under this vinous influence. 1850Thackeray Pendennis xlvi, Frank and familiar..from vinous excitement. 1874Ld. Lytton in Lady Balfour Lett. (1906) I. 318 On our way back to town I was seized with a vinous inspiration.
b. Affected by, showing signs of, the use of wine.
1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. I. ix. 161 He was a shortish stout man, in powder, with a huge vinous face. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxiv, Winking at his cousin with a pair of vinous eyes. 1882‘F. Anstey’ Vice Versa iii. 44 C. gave a vinous wink.
4. Addicted to wine.
1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall ii, Indefatigable in his requisition for the proximity of his vinous Achates. 1820Byron Juan iii. xlii, The vinous Greek to whom he had address'd His question, much too merry to divine The questioner, fill'd up a glass of wine. 1859Thackeray Virgin. x, Let us fancy them reeling to bed,..and their vinous General..conducted to his chamber by the young gentlemen of the house.
5. With names of colours: Like that of (red) wine; having a wine-coloured tinge.
1834Penny Cycl. II. 79/2 The general colour of the body is a dark vinous red on the upper parts and silvery grey beneath. 1882Garden 25 Mar. 203/2 The colour of the flowers is a yellow-green with blotches of deep vinous⁓purple at the basis of the flower-cup. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 65 Cup..rough, vinous-brown. 1894R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Gt. Brit. I. 65 Ear-coverts and throat vinous-chestnut.
b. Of the colour of wine; vinaceous. Also Comb.
1894R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Gt. Brit. I. 19 The white or vinous-throated birds. Ibid. 80 The median and lesser wing-coverts vinous.
Hence ˈvinously adv.; ˈvinousness.
1727Bailey (vol. II), Vinousness, winy Quality, Taste or Smell. 1836Fraser's Mag. XIII. 733 He felt himself ‘vinously inclined’. 1859Meredith R. Feverel xvii, He determined to overbear his client vinously. 1891― One of our Conq. vi, His voice and words had a swing of conviction: they imparted vinousness to a heart athirst. |