A fermented liquor prepared from mare's milk, commonly used as a beverage by the Tartars and other Asiatic nomadic peoples; also applied to a…

a medicinal distillate, perhaps of a kind of balsam.

A clear alcoholic beverage of Turkey and the Balkans distilled from a variety of fruits or grains, usually flavoured with herbs and spices, esp…

a powerful distilled liquor made in South Asia.

A distilled liquor. rare.

Fennel water.

In Spain, Portugal, and Latin America: any of several types of strong distilled alcoholic beverage, esp. a brandy made in Spain and Portugal or a…

a spirituous liquor prepared from fennel seed, = fenouillette, n.

A type of colourless spirit in the Balkans distilled from various ingredients, including grape pomace and plums, and often flavoured with herbs or…

The spirit obtained from the flowers of Mahue longifolia var. latifolia by distillation.

An alcoholic spirit distilled in Germany and Switzerland from a fermented liquor obtained by crushing wild cherries.

A strong intoxicating spirit distilled from the fermented sap of an agave. Cf. tequila, n., pulque, n.

(see quot. 1832).

Caribbean. A drink made from ginger (see quot. 1859). Cf. mauby, n. 1. Obsolete.

A colourless, strongly alcoholic Egyptian drink made from raisins and drunk with added water, which turns it white.

alcohol distilled from fermented potatoes; also called potato brandy or potato whisky.

= mahua, n. 2. Also mowra spirit. Obsolete.

A gin-like Mexican spirit made by distilling the fermented sap of a maguey, Agave tequilana. Cf. mescal, n., pulque, n.

a strong kind of apple-jack, peach-brandy, or whisky.

A liquor distilled in the West Indies from seaside sage, Croton flavens.

= kirschwasser, n.

In extended use: = mastika, n.

(Usually with lower-case initial.) An alcoholic liquor made by Alaskan Indians, esp. the Hoochinoo people; also any inferior alcoholic drink (esp…

= mastika, n.

An alcoholic liquor made from grain spirit or brandy flavoured with mastic gum, produced in Greece and elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean.

(a) = Hoochinoo, n. 2. (b) In more general use: alcoholic liquor, spirits, esp. of low quality or illegal provenance.

A clear aniseed-flavoured spirit, originally from Greece, frequently drunk with or without added water as an aperitif; a glass of this.

= koumiss, n.

A rough Japanese spirit distilled from various ingredients, including sake dregs. Also attributive.

A liqueur distilled from mirabelles, esp. ones grown in Alsace, France.

A rough and local kind of Greek spirituous drink.

A strong alcoholic drink traditionally made in south-western China by distillation in a pot still of a fermented mixture of wheat and sorghum.

A strong, home-brewed traditional Kenyan spirit made from fermented grains such as millet, maize, or sorghum.

A type of tequila which has been aged in oak for between two months and a year.