单词 | spirit dealer |
释义 | > as lemmasspirit dealer (b) With the sense ‘of or relating to (esp. alcoholic) spirits’, as spirit dealer, spirit drink, spirit flame, spirit licence, spirit merchant, etc. ΚΠ 1736 A. Holden Vindic. Pamphlet intituled Tryal of Spirits 20 in Coll. Pamphlets Pro & Con Brit. Distillery The Mischiefs done the Society by the Spirit Trade, have not arose from Rum and Brandy made from Melasses, but from Malt-Spirits. 1786 Boletarium 57 Holmes, John..Spirit Merchant. 1797 E. Burke Third Let. Peace Regicide Directory France 150 The spirit licences kept nearly the same level till the stoppage of the Distilleries in 1795. 1822 J. Galt Gathering of West in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 310/1 The change-wife's gill-stoup is full cousin to the spirit-dealer's gallon-pot. 1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 186 Spirit-extract, with chloride of sodium. 1938 K. O'Brien Pray for Wanderer (1951) i. 22 Una lighted the spirit-flame under the retort of the coffee machine. 1994 Jrnl. Canad. Hist. Assoc. 30 37 per cent were from the middling ranks (e.g. surgeons, planters, shopkeepers, spirit dealers, fish cullers, innkeepers). 2013 Hawk Eye (Burlington, Iowa) 24 Feb. 4 d/5 More and more people are experimenting with wine beyond spirit drinks. < as lemmas |
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