| 单词 | bacchus' dew | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasBacchus' dew  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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