| 单词 | dew of glenlivat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdew of Glenlivat d. With qualifying words, as Bacchus' dew, the juice of the grape, wine, or other fermented or distilled drink; mountain-dew, a fanciful term for whisky illicitly distilled on the mountains; dew of Glenlivat, Glenlivat whisky; †dew of vitriol (ros vitrioli). ΚΠ 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clarence iii Sowst in Bacchus dewe. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Dew of Vitriol, a Name given by some Chymists to a kind of Phlegm or Water drawn from that Mineral Salt, by Distillation in Balneo Mariæ, or with a gentle Heat. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 84 There remains a whitish-grey mass, which formerly was called Vitriol Calcined to Whiteness. If you distil it in a retort, and collect the product, you will have first, a water slightly acid, called Dew of Vitriol. 1822 P. B. Shelley Zucca ix Full as a cup with the vine's burning dew. 1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 610 Whiskey, or mountain..dew. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin xxxv Then came the whiskey—the real dew. 1840 Chambers's Jrnl. 9 94 The discomfited gaugers fled..leaving the victorious chief in undisturbed possession of the much coveted mountain-dew. 1884 Daily News 23 May 5/7 [They] cannot compete with the dew of Glenlivat. < as lemmas |
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