spirits of wine
Noun
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Noun
spirits of wine (uncountable)
- (archaic) ethanol.
, Encyclopédie, vol. 4, page 408 - Take of agua fortis and agua regia, each two ounces, one ounce of salts of ammonia, two drachms of the best spirits of wine, as much gold as can be bought for a hundred pence, and two drachmas of pure silver. […] Finally pour your spirits of wine upon the salts of ammonia, leaving it also to evaporate
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