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▪ I. liquor, n.
    (ˈlɪkə(r))
    Forms: 3 licur(e, 4 li-, lykour, 4–6 lycour(e, 4–7 licour(e, liquour(e, 5–6 lycor, 5–7 licor, (5 lycure, lycowr, liccore, 6 liquore, lyquor, liker, lickor, likcour, 7 liqor, liquer, licquor, lecker), 6– liquor.
    [a. OF. licur, licour, likeur, mod.F. liqueur (Pr. licor, liquor, Sp., Pg. licor, It. liquore), a. L. liquor (in Lucretius also līquor) liquidity (hence concr. a liquid, liquor), cogn. w. liquāre, liquēre, līquī (see liquate, liquid). The later Eng. forms have been assimilated graphically to the L. word, without change of pronunciation.
    The L. root *lī̆qu- is by some scholars thought to represent a pre-Latin *wlī̆q-, found also in Celtic (Irish fliuch, Welsh gwlyb, wet); but this is doubtful.]
    † 1. a. A liquid; matter in a liquid state; occas. in wider sense, a fluid. Obs. in general sense.

a 1225 Ancr. R. 164 Hwo þet bere a deorewurðe licur, oðer a deorewurðe wete, as is bame, in a feble uetles. a 1300 Cursor M. 21620 Þis cros was men þan wont to se, and it was tald þat a licure þar-of ran. 1357 Lay Folks Catech. 289 It [baptisme] be done anely in water, For nanothir licour is leuefull tharfore. 1444 Rolls of Parlt. V. 116/2 Vynegre, Oyle, and Hony and all other Lycours gaugeable. 1450–1530 Myrr. our Ladye 239 Wyth thre lyquores that ys with wepynge teares, wyth blody swette, and wyth blode. 1508 Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. xxxii. Wks. (1876) 41 Parte of theyr payne shall be in a pytte full of brennynge lycour. 1604 E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies IV. x. 234 Although it [quicksilver] be a liquor, yet is it more heavie then any other mettall. 1610 Shakes. Temp. ii. ii. 21 Yond same blacke cloud,..lookes like a foule bumbard that would shed his licquor. 1664 Power Exp. Philos. i. 59 Which Veins and Arteries [in the Louse] are so exceeding little, that both they and their Liquor are insensible. 1701 tr. Le Clerc's Prim. Fathers 309 He [Prudentius] would have the Soul to be a very subtle Liquor.

¶ Used in the primary Latin sense: Liquid quality, liquidity. Obs. rare.

1477 Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 63 Your principall Agent..Which I teach you to knowe by signes fowre, By Colour, Odour, Sapor and Liquore.

b. In somewhat specialized uses: The liquid constituent of a secretion or the like; the liquid product of a chemical operation. Also in various phrases (often translating Lat. names of substances), as liquor of flints = liquor silicum (see 6); liquor of the Hollanders (see quot.); liquor of Libavius, bichloride of tin.

1565 in Satir. Poems Reform. I. 4, I heave not vpe my handes filled w{supt}{suph} liquour of gowld, but w{supt}{suph} water so muche prysed by Artaxerxes. 1800 tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 150 If liquor of flints, siliceous potash, be poured into a solution of gold. 1808 Davy in Phil. Trans. XCIX. 93 The fuming muriate of tin, the Liquor of Libavius, is known to contain dry muriatic acid. 1831 J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 305 Treat directly the morphia with diluted sulphuric acid and permit the liquor to crystallize. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 12 The chloride of olefiant gas, usually called Liquor of the Hollanders. 1879 J. M. Duncan Lect. Dis. Women xv. (1889) 108 The retained menstrual fluid becomes denser, the liquor being mostly absorbed.

2. a. A liquid or a prepared solution used as a wash or bath, and in many processes in the industrial arts, e.g. in Tanning, the ooze or tan-water. iron liquor, red liquor, yellow liquor (see quot. 1839).

1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 37 The shoomaker liquoreth his leather, with waterish liquor, kitchen stuffe, and all kinde of baggage mingled togither. 1611 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 161 Paide for wodd and coles for the boylinge of the lecker to the same, xijd. 1691 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 292 The sole invention for dipping of cloth, hats, scarfes, &c. in a certain liquor that shal preserve them to keep out rain. 1730 Southall Bugs 14 My Liquor's being then so strong and oleous, that I durst not venture to liquor the Furniture. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 307/1 The hides are then put into a pit of strong liquor called ooze or wooze, prepared..by infusing ground bark in water. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 223 The pyrolignite of iron called iron liquor in this country, is the only mordant used in calico-printing for black, violet, puce, and brown colours. The acetate of alumina, prepared from pyrolignous acid, is much used by the calico-printers under the name of red or yellow liquor, being employed for these dyes. Ibid. 1209 Some finely clarified syrup, made from loaf sugar, called liquor by the refiners, is poured..upon the base of each cone. 1883 B. W. Richardson Field of Disease 492 In the further process of finishing the snuff..there is what is called sifting ‘the shorts’, preparatory to adding the ‘liquors’, viz. salt and water to make weight, and scents to give perfume.

† b. dial. Grease or oil (for lubricating purposes). Obs. (Cf. liquor v. 1.)

1559 Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 90 Payd for lycor to lycor the chymes..jd. 1584 Ibid. 167 Item, for a pynte of goose liker, to liker the belles..iijd.

c. Brewing. Water.

1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece i. vi. 278 The Day before you intend to brew, you should boil a Copper of Liquor, (Water being an improper Term in a Brew-house). 1742 Lond. & Country Brew. i. (ed. 4) 22 The Liquor (for it is Six-pence Forfeit in the London Brew-house if the Word Water is named). 1880 Times 2 Oct. 6/1 ‘Liquor’ is the word used, because in brewing it is considered a grave solecism to speak of ‘water’.

3. a. Liquid for drinking; beverage, drink. Now almost exclusively spec., a drink produced by fermentation or distillation. malt liquor, liquor brewed from malt; ale, beer, porter, etc. spirituous liquor, liquor produced by distillation; spirits. vinous liquor, liquor made from grapes; wine.

a 1300 Cursor M. 13405 Dranc he neuer ar sli licur. 13.. Coer de L. 3048 To mete hadde he no savour, To wyn, ne watyr, ne no lycour. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 6763 Na licour sal þai fynd to fele, Þat þair threst mught sleke. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 315 This Maister [a Surgien and Phisicien]..putte a liquour in hire mouth. 1412–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vi, For his chiefe socoure She toke to hym a vyoll with lycoure. 1494 Fabyan Chron. i. iii. 10 In the whiche they caste wyne, mylke, and other Lycours. 1542 Boorde Dyetary x. (1870) 252 Water..of the whiche dyuers lycours or drynkes for mannes sustynaunce be made of [sic]. 1611 Bible Num. vi. 3 Neither shal he drinke any liquor of grapes. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 445 Eve..thir flowing cups With pleasant liquors crown'd. 1687 A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 33 They call it Coffee,..This Liquor is made of a Berry. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 36 A broad Face, from which drops his Proboscis or Trunk..; through its Hollow he sucks his Liquor. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Mar 10 Mar., Sherbet..is the liquor they drink at meals. 1719 Defoe Crusoe i. xiii. (1840) 227 There were some casks of liquor, whether wine or brandy I knew not. 1765 Phil. Trans. LV. 227 Beer, cyder, champaign, and other Huffy liquors. 1789 W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 139 Persons afflicted with low spirits,..find more benefit from the use of solid food and generous liquors. 1813 Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 141 Fruits for the manufacture of fermented liquors. 1842 M. Russell Polynesia iii. (1849) 120 Their own laws were strong enough to prevent the manufacture of spirituous liquors at home.

fig. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 53 Fruytfull and quycke by the lycour and sappe of charite and grace. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Gal. 16 My sonne Isaac by drynkyng the effectuall lickor of the gospel, shal styll..growe vp, vntill he become a perfite man. 1584 Lodge Alarum (1879) 44 They..are drunken with the lycour of her abhominations. 1859 FitzGerald tr. Omar ii. (1899) 69 Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.

b. With reference to intoxicating effect. disguised with liquor = disguised ppl. a. 6. in liquor: in a state of intoxication. to be (the) worse for liquor: to be overcome by drink.

a 1529 Skelton Bk. 3 Fools Wks. 1843 I. 202 Thou hast wylde lycoure, the whiche maketh all thy stomacke to be on a flambe. 1592 Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 23 a, He is reputed..a boore that will not take his licour profoundly. 1752 Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 229 Though the passion for liquor be more brutal and debasing. 1753 Scots Mag. May 260/2 He was in liquor. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 110 When he had slept off his liquor. 1871 Smiles Charac. ix. (1876) 246 He..led her across, not observing that she was in liquor at the time. 1893 W. Forbes-Mitchell Remin. Gt. Mutiny 108 He had never been the worse for liquor in his life.

c. slang. (Chiefly U.S.) A drink (of an intoxicating beverage). Also, a liquor-up.

1860 Lever One of them xxii, If you choose to come in and take a liquor with me. 1872 Echo 23 Aug. (Farmer), To have,..as the Americans would say, a liquor-up, at the hotel. 1882 Punch 29 Apr. 193/2 These ‘nips’ and ‘pegs’ and ‘liquors’..at all hours of the day were unknown to us.

† d. Used for liqueur. Obs.

1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 259/2 Liquors of various sorts are compounded and distilled at Montpelier.

4. The water in which meat has been boiled; broth, sauce; the fat in which bacon, fish, or the like has been fried; the liquid contained in oysters.

c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 11 Þen take þe lycowr of þe bonys, an þe skyn, an þe brothe þat þe Capoun was sothyn ynne. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 303/1 Lycure, or brothe of fysche, and oþer lyke, liquamen. c 1450 ME. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 65 Take and seþe verueyne, and betonye, and wermod..& þanne..take þe same erbys..and grynde hem..and tempre hem wyþ þe same licour a ȝeyne. c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 382 Looke ye haue good mustarde þer-to [bravne] and good licoure. 1514 Barclay Cyt. & Uplandyshm. (Percy Soc.) p. xlvii, Oft all the broth & licour fat Is spilt on thy gowne. 1719 De Foe Crusoe ii. ii. (1840) 30 He..softened them with the liquor of the meat. 1747 H. Glasse Cookery ii. (1767) 49 Take some of the oyster liquor [etc.]. Ibid. 59 Let them grow cold in their own liquor before you serve them up. Ibid. vi. 125 When you boil a leg of pork or a good piece of beef, save the liquor... Then put in the pork or beef liquor. 1806 A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 77 Add a little anchovy liquor. Ibid. 115 A few oysters with their liquor. 1896 Warwicksh. Gloss., Liquor, gravy, the grease of fried bacon, &c.

5. The liquid produced by infusion (in testing the quality of a tea). in liquor, in the state of an infusion.

1870 E. Money Cultiv. & Manuf. Tea (1878) 111 They judge from three things, first, the Tea; secondly, the liquor; thirdly, the out-turn... The Liquor.—In taste this should be strong, rasping, and pungent. Ibid. 136 Its [sc. Flowery Pekoe's] strength in liquor is very great. 1882 Tea Cycl. 224/1 Poor teas of weak liquor.

‖ 6. The Latin word, pronounced (ˈlaɪkwɔː(r)) and (ˈlɪkwɔː(r)), is used (a) in Pharmacy and Med. in the names of various solutions of medicinal substances in water, as liquor ammoniæ, strong solution of ammonia (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1889); liquor potassæ, an aqueous solution of hydrate of potash; liquor silicum, ‘a compound of silex and salt of tartar, discovered by Van Helmont in 1640, which becomes liquid in a damp moisture’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1889). (b) in Physiol., as liquor amnii, the fluid contained in the sac of the amnion; liquor sanguinis, the blood-plasma.

1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 51 He melted the white sand of Freyenwalde with four times its weight of salt of tartar, and formed a liquor silicum. 1839 Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 220 The fluid matter contained within the nucleus is called the liquor amnios [sic]. 1846 G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 360 The liquor amnii at the sixth month was turbid. 1857 G. Bird Urin. Deposits (ed. 5) 184, I dissolved a portion of this concretion in liquor potassæ. 1874 Jones & Siev. Pathol. Anat. (ed. 2) 14 Liquor sanguinis consists of a watery solution of certain inorganic salts.

7. attrib. and Comb., as liquor-bar, liquor-cistern, liquor-dealer, liquor-gage, liquor glass, liquor house, liquor law, liquor licence, liquor question, liquor-saloon, liquor-seller, liquor-selling, liquor-shop, liquor-store, liquor-tent, liquor trade, liquor traffic, liquor vessel; liquor-fired, liquor-seasoned adjs. Also † liquor-back, a kind of vat used in brewing; liquor prescription Canad. Hist., a doctor's prescription of alcohol for ‘medicinal’ purposes, to evade the prohibition regulations; liquor-pump, ‘a portable pump for emptying casks, etc.’ (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); also in Sugar-Manuf. (see quot.); liquor-thief, a tube which is let down through the bung-hole of a cask in sampling spirits (Knight).

1691 T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 102 Cisterns, Scuppers, *Liquor-Backs.

1813 W. Dunlap Mem. G. F. Cooke II. xxx. 278 The fountain of mischief, the *liquor-bar, was shut.

1839 Ure Dict. Arts 765 The cock..above is left open to maintain a communication with the *liquor cistern [in tanning].

1859 H. W. Beecher Life Thoughts Ser. ii. 70, I can imagine how a *liquor-dealer would feel to own his conversion.

1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 138 Her *liquor-fired face.

1875 Knight Dict. Mech., *Liquor-gage.

1830 Marryat King's Own ix, A bottle of brandy, and a *liquor glass.

1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters ii. 21 The postmistress handed him a letter and two circulars from *liquor houses.

1852 Boston Bee 29 July, The Life Boat..takes the Bee to do, for its course in relation to the *Liquor law. 1858 A. Lincoln Coll. Works (1953) II. 493, I do not believe in the right of Illinois to interfere with..the Liquor Laws of Maine. 1866 G. Meredith Let. c 27 Nov. (1970) I. 345 You will become a fanatical Retired Admiral advocating Maine Liquor laws for every natural appetite on earth. 1908 Daily Chron. 27 Feb. 4/4 Certain liquor-law restrictions which had existed under the second Empire. 1975 Listener 16 Jan. 76/1 The counties would have..their own educational system, their liquor laws.

1850 Hunt's Merchant's Mag. XXII. 87 (caption) Statistics of *Liquor Licenses in New York City. 1956 B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) xix. 157 According to the law..nobody who has a police record can hold a liquor licence. 1971 Sunday Express (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. (Homefinder) 7/2 (Advt.), 1. Dance hall. 2. Restaurant—Liquor licence.

1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 18 Mar. 1/3 The suspension of 19 physicians in Manitoba for unlawfully issuing *liquor prescriptions has resulted from an inquiry.

1839 Ure Dict. Arts 1196 In Demerara..it is usual to attach to the [sugar] mill a *liquor-pump. In action, the liquor from the gutter of the mill⁓bed runs into the cistern of the pump, and is raised..to the gutter which leads to the clarifier or coppers.

1855 *Liquor question [see liquor-shop below]. c 1918 C. Stelzle Why Prohibition! 291 Michigan was about to vote on the liquor question.

1863 Daily Even. Bulletin (San Francisco) 29 Sept. 3/2 At 1 o'clock they went into a *liquor saloon kept by a woman on Kearny Street. 1874 D. Macrae Americans at Home xl. 320 In liquor-saloons and gambling-houses.

1884 Mag. of Art Mar. 215/2 Some..getting *liquor-seasoned as they grow older.

1855 P. T. Barnum Life 359 The *liquor seller, the moderate drinker, and the indifferent man. 1877 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/2 A method which practically makes the government the liquor-seller.

Ibid., All *liquor-selling is not equally dangerous to the community.

1809 Malkin Gil Blas vii. xiii. (Rtldg.) 15 A *Liquor-shop. 1855 ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Doesticks, what he Says xxxi. 276 The great excitement was on the liquor question; it was Noggs and no liquor shops, or Boggs and a few liquor shops. 1877 J. Habberton Jericho Road xix. 167 There was not even a streak of light visible under the door of any liquor-shop in the town. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 769/2 The effect has been a very large reduction in the number of liquor shops.

1815 Ann. Reg., Chron. 46 Mr. Henry Beer's *liquor-store. 1855 ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Doesticks, what he Says xii. 98 Fire in a liquor-store—hose burst; brandy ‘lying round loose’. 1887 Nation (N.Y.) 15 Dec. 468/3 To keep a liquor-store in Philadelphia. 1939 F. P. Grove Two Generations 39 Take the proceeds to the liquor store. 1964 Calgary Herald 24 July 23/2 A liquor store on the site would devalue residential property to the immediate west. 1972 R. Bloch Night-World (1974) xi. 72 He passed the lights of the liquor store.

1889 T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. i, The licensed *liquor-tent.

1908 Daily Chron. 12 May 4/4 Unfortunately for the Labour party they have got entangled with the *liquor trade vote.

1848 J. Marsh (title) A discourse on the extent and evils of the Sunday *liquor traffic in cities. 1877 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/2 This work is a compilation of evidence on ‘the problem of law as applied to the liquor traffic’. 1901 19th Cent. Oct. 538 The illicit liquor-traffic had been absolutely stopped. 1915 W. J. Bryan Mem. 2 Oct. (1925) 434 The brewers and distillers were connecting them with the liquor traffic to their detriment.

1608 R. Norton tr. Stevin's Disme D iij, Of Gaudging, and the measures of all *Liquor vessels.

Hence ˈliquordom nonce-wd.

1892 Farrar in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 545 In the sense in which it is incessantly used by the defenders of liquordom. 1918 T. H. Walker Principal J. Denney 119 His hatred of liquordom..sprang from devotion to his Master.

Restrict ‖ to sense 6 a. Add pronunc. (ˈlaɪkə(r)) to sense 6. Add: [6.] b. Obstetr. = liquor amnii, sense 6 a above.

1902 H. J. Garrigues Textbk. Sci. & Art Obstetr. xvii. 68 The liquor amnii takes up the urine occasionally voided by the fœtus and protects the fœtus against injury. The liquor prevents parts of the fœtus from coalescing and favors the free development of the limbs. 1962 G. G. Lennon Diagnosis in Clin. Obstetr. xxv. 154 The exact origin and fate of the liquor is obscure. 1977 Lancet 25 June 1352/2 Babies delivered with ‘smelly’ liquor in one hospital received prophylactic ampicillin + cloxacillin for 7 days. 1979 G. Bourne Pregnancy (rev. ed.) iv. 84 Throughout its whole development and growth the baby is surrounded by the amniotic fluid, otherwise known as the liquor amnii or just simply liquor. 1990 Parents Mar. 73/2 Liquor..comes away during labour as ‘the waters’.

▪ II. liquor, v.
    (ˈlɪkə(r))
    [f. liquor n.]
    1. trans. To cover or smear with a liquor; esp. to lubricate with grease or oil. Obs. exc. as nonce-use in to liquor over.

1573 Churchw. Acc. St. Margaret, Westm. (Nichols 1797) 19 Paid for netesfoot oil to liquor the belles..2{supd}. 1577 Fenton Gold. Epist. 46 He liquored the earth wyth hys bloude. 1626 Bacon Sylva §117 Cart-Wheeles squeak not when they are liquored. 1655 Baxter Quaker's Catech. 22 If I had your Spirit to liquor my tongue, I should..preach the people out of the place. a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) I. 388 Witches liquor their Staves and fly through the Air. 1718 Motteux Quix. (1733) I. 149 That which he fansy'd to be Blood, was only..the Oil of the Lamp that had liquor'd his Hair and Face. 1737 Bracken Farriery Impr. (1756) I. 348 Greasing, or Liquoring the Hoofs with Hog's Lard. 1847 Halliwell, Liquor, to oil, or anoint. Glouc. 1864 Gd. Words 80/2 Great knobs of buds on a horse-chestnut..liquored over with an oily exudation.

2. esp. To dress (leather, boots or shoes) with oil or grease.

1502 [see liquoring vbl. n.]. 1598 Shakes. Merry W. iv. v. 100 They would melt mee out of my fat drop by drop, and liquor Fishermens boots with me. 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 527 The fat of Swine is very precious to liquor shooes and boots therewithal. 1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xxxiv. §31 (1689) 202 Let the Currier very well Liquor them with following Liquor. 1776 Anstey Election Ball 29 Polish his Stirrups and liquor his Boots. 1830 G. Colman Br. Grins, Random Records (1872) 471 [He] liquored his boots, rubbed down his Highland pony [etc.].

b. slang, in phr. to liquor (a person's) boots: (a) to cuckold (him); (b) (see quot. 1785).

1702 T. Brown Wks. (1720) II. 305 Believing for some Reasons he had an underhand Design of liquoring his boots for him. 1785 Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue s.v., To liquor one's boots, to drink before a journey, among Roman Catholicks to administer the extreme unction.

† c. slang. To thrash, beat; esp. in phr. to liquor (a person's) hide. Obs.

a 1689 R. Hood & Little John viii. in Child Ballads III. 134/2 I'll liquor thy hide, If thou offerst to touch the string. 1719 D'Urfey Pills VI. 101 I'll liquor your Hide.

† 3. Cookery. To cover (pie-crust) with a prepared liquor; to glaze. Obs.

a 1704 Compl. Servant-Maid (ed. 7) 72 Liquor it [a pie] with Claret, Butter, and stript Time. 1751 Smollett Per. Pic. II. xlviii. 82 Two pies, one of dormice liquored with syrup of white poppies.

4. In various industrial arts: To steep in or soak with a liquor; to steep (malt) in water; to clear (sugar-loaves) by pouring over them a ‘liquor’ of fine syrup.

1743 Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 99 While the Malt lies liquored in the Mash-vat. 1833 Ure Rep. Sugar Refining 3 in Parl. Papers XXXIII. 553, I regret that circumstances did not permit me to adopt as my general practice the clearing the loaves with fine syrup, called liquoring, instead of using clay pap. 1851 Ronalds & Richardson Chem. Technol. III. 155 The [tobacco] leaves intended for the production of snuff are sorted and liquored. 1874, 1893 [see liquoring vbl. n.].

b. transf. To adulterate (spirits) with water.

1894 Daily News 18 Apr. 6/6 They will be obliged to ‘liquor’ their spirits—that is to say, they will dilute them with water.

5. To supply with liquor to drink; to ply with liquor. Also to liquor up. Now slang.

c 1560 Misogonus i. iv. 19 (Brandl Quellen 434), I thinke, heis at Alhouse, a likeringe ones brayne. 1577 Fenton Gold. Epist. 115 The blynde man, who weening to powre drinke into hys dyshe, powreth it into y⊇ riuer which hath no neede to bee liquored. c 1600 Timon iii. iv, If that your throates are dry, I'le liquour them. 1642 R. Carpenter Experience i. xvii. 118 If wee licker them throughly with strong Beere. 1662 Rump I. 336 Unlesse the Brewer doth liquor him home. 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. of Clubs 321 There are several of these Flat-Cap Societies of Female Tatlers, who, as soon as their Business is over, liquor their Weather-beaten Hides at the Taverns adjacent to the Markets which they use. [Cf. 2 c.] 1710 ― Brit. Hudibras 5 Some liquor'd well with Foggy Ale. 1852 R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 294 ‘Call him in’, roared Sir Harry, ‘and let's liquor him’. 1890 Boy's Own Paper 11 Jan. 227/3 I've been liquored up and stroked down till I feel about as shaky as our friend Hugh there.

6. intr. (slang.) To drink alcoholic liquor. Also to liquor up.

1839 Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. I. 239 It's a bargain then,..come let's liquor on it. 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xii. 81 The old man called her Mary. ‘No, Dad,..it must be Margaret’. ‘No! Mary... Besides, that's a Bible name, and we can't liquor up on Margaret’. 1862 Macm. Mag. June 146 They..liquored at the bar, and played the mysterious game ‘euchre’. 1895 Zangwill Master ii. xi. 259 ‘Will you liquor with me?’ he said.

Hence ˈliquored ppl. a.; ˈliquoring vbl. n. Also ˈliquorer.

1502 Privy Purse Exp. Eliz. of York (1830) 37 A barrell of greese..for the licoryng of the Quenes borehydes. 1611 Cotgr., Surpoinct,..an oylie grease scummed from peeces of lichored leather. 1667 Lacy Sauny Scot iv. (1698) 26 O' my Saul, Sawndy wou'd be Hang'd gin I sud bestow an aw'd Liquor'd Bute. 1681 Dryden Abs. & Achit. ii. 460 Og from a treason-tavern rolling home, Round as a globe, and liquored every chink. 1851 Ronalds & Richardson Chem. Technol. III. 156 The liquored leaves [of tobacco] are tied up in bundles. 1874 W. Crookes Dyeing & Calico-pr. iv. 47 By this alternate steaming and liquoring, the goods are much more thoroughly cleansed than [etc.]. 1885 A. Edgar Old Ch. Life Scot. 326 These sobered liquorers. 1893 C. Booth Life & Labour Lond. IV. 224 The class of operatives [of a cigar factory] known as ‘liquorers’ and ‘strippers’. Ibid., ‘Liquoring’ is the preliminary process to which the [tobacco] leaf is subjected, and consists in sprinkling it with pure water by means of a spray [etc.]. 1896 G. M. Stisted Life Sir R. F. Burton xi. 267 A stroll..enlivened by an occasional liquoring up with a new acquaintance.