meaning of alcohol
1. An impalpable powder.
2. The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
3. Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.
4. A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5. OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3. OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11. OH) or fusel oil, etc.
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