单词 | low-wines |
释义 | † low-wines Obs. Also 7 sing. low wine, 8 Sc. lowins. pl. The first spirit that comes off in the process of distillation. (Cf. faints.)
1641French Distill. i. (1651) 26 There will come forth a weak Spirit, which is called low Wine. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 93 The first Spirit that comes off, is a small Liquor, which we call low-wines. 1701Lond. Gaz. No. 2717/1 An Act for Granting to His Majesty several Duties upon Low-Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction. 1790A. Wilson Poems 91 Whauks o' gude ait-far'le cowins, Synt down wi' whey, or whisky lowins. 1820Broderip & Bingham's Rep. I. 436 Terry v. Huntington, when the commissioners determined low wines to be strong waters. |

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