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any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings

the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection); "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose"

infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up"

animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"

a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character

the vital principle or animating force within living things

any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings

the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection); "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose"

infuse with spirit; "The company spirited him up"

animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"

a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character

the vital principle or animating force within living things

Alcoholic liquors.

A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.

Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.

The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.

Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.

Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.

Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.

One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.

Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; -- often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.

Intent; real meaning; -- opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.

Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.

Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): -- often in the plural.

Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.

A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.

Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).

Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.

To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up.

To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.

Alcoholic liquors.

A ghost.

To carry off; kidnap; followed by away.

The part of man that is capable of thought, feeling, and will; the soul.

Ardor; dash.

Distilled liquor, especially alcohol.

The soul; immortal, nonphysical part of man; any supernatural being, as a ghost or fairy; courage, energy, and liveliness; as, the troops advanced with spirit; power of mind, moral or intellectual; as, "the spirit is willing"; condition of mind, temper, or disposition; as, the spirit of the army was loyal; enthusiasm for an object; as, school spirit; real meaning; as, the tone of the words contradicted their spirit; a strong distilled alcoholic liquor, as whisky, etc.; a solution in alcohol of certain drugs; as, spirit of ammonia; alcohol.

To carry away suddenly or secretly: often with off or away: Spirit, the third person of the Trinity; the Holy Spirit.

An alcoholic fluid.

A ghost.

Vital force: the soul: a ghost: mental disposition: enthusiasm: real meaning: chief quality: a very lively person: any volatile, inflammable liquid obtained by distillation, as brandy:-pl. intellectual activity: liveliness: persons with particular qualities of mind: mental excitement: spirituous liquors.

Soul; thinking part of man; ghost; disposition; energy; volatile liquid obtained by distiliation; alcohol.

The Spirit, the Holy Ghost.

To incite; to convey secretly.

A name given to every liquid product of distillation. Spirits were formerly distinguished into-inflammable, acid, and alkaline; and consequently a number of substances were crowded together, which often resembled each other in no other property than in being volatile. The term is now confined to alcoholic liquors, of which the following are the chief: Arrack. Distilled from coarse palm sugar, named jaggery, fermented with the bark of the Mimosa leucophlea; also from rice and the fermented juice of the Palm; made in India. Its varieties are:- 1. Mahwah Arrack. Made in India from the flowers of the Madhuca tree, Bassia butyracea. 2. Tuba. Made from palm wine, in the Philippine Islands. 3. Araka. Distilled, by the Tartars, from koumis, fermented mares’ milk. 4. Araki. Distilled from dates, by the Egyptians. 5. Arika. A variety of koumis, distilled from fer-mented mares’ milk, in Tartary and Iceland. Brandy. Distilled from wine, figs, peaches, per-simmon, apple, mulberries, and sometimes other fruits, in Europe, Asia, North and South America, wherever wine is made. The best brandy is that of Cognac.; the next, that of Bordeaux and Rochelle. The varieties are- 1. Aguardiente, (S.) In Peru, the common brandy obtained from grapes is the Aguardiente de Pisco, so called, because shipped at the port of Pisco. Another kind, much dearer, and of excellent flavour, is made from Muscatel grapes, and is called Aguardiente de Italia. It is sometimes seen in the United States. 2. Lau. Made from rice, in Siam. 3. Rakia. Made in Dalmatia from the husks of grapes mixed with aromatics. 4. Rossolio. Made at Dantzic, from a compound of brandy, rossolis, and other plants. 5. Troster. Made on the Rhine, from the husks of grapes, fermented with barley and rye. 6. Sekis-kayavodka. Made from the lees of wine and fruit at Scio. 7. Geneva, Hollands, (genievre, French for juniper.) Distilled from malted barley and rye, rectified on juniper berries, in Holland. Its variety is-Gin. Made in England, from malted barley, rye, potatoes; rectified with turpentine. Goldwasser. Distilled at Dantzic, from wheat, barley, and rye, rectified with aniseed, cinnamon, and other spices. Kirschwasser. Distilled from the Malacheb cherry, in Switzerland. Maraschino. Distilled from the Macarska cherry, at Zara, the capital of Dalmatia. Rum, (supposed to be derived from the terminal syllable of the word saccharum: hut. the abo-riginal Americans call this liquor Rum.) Distilled, in the West Indies and South America, from cane-sugar and molasses, and in_ North America from maple-sugar. Its variety is-Slatkaia trava. Made in Kamtschatka, from a sweet grass. Show-choo. Distilled, in China, from the lees of mandarin, a wine made from boiled rice. Whisky, (supposed to be derived from usque, the first two syllables of usquebagh, the original name in Ireland.) Distilled, in Scotland and Ireland, from malted and raw harley, rye, oats, and potatoes; and in the south of France, from sloes. In Ireland it was called buil-ceaun, or madness of the head. The best Scotch whisky is Glenlivet, the best Irish, Ennishowen. Y-wer-a. Distilled, in the Sandwich Islands, from the root of the Tee-root, baked, pounded, and fermented. To these may be added an intoxicating liquor made by the Affghanistans, from ewes’ milk; and that made in Kamtschatka, from a species of mushroom, named muchumer.

Any volatile or distilled liquid; also, a solution of a volatile material in alcohol.

Alcohol, the volatile principle, or s., of wine; subsequently a term mainly restricted to preparations consisting of alcohol distilled with a volatile substance. Such preparations are now, however, usually made by simply dissolving the volatile substance in alcohol. Used without qualification, s. means distilled s.

n. [Latin] Air in motion ; wind; hence, breath;- life or living substance considered independently of corporeal existence ;-the intelligent, immaterial, and immortal part of man ; the soul ;-a disembodied soul;-hence, a supernatural apparition; a spectre ; a ghost ;-also, sometimes a sprite ; a fairy;-temper; habitual disposition of mind;-temporary disposition of mind excited or directed to a particular object ; eager desire ;-ardour; courage:- energy ; vivacity ;-animation ; cheerfulness-usually in the plural ;-bent or turn of mind, moral or intellectual; - vigour of mind ; genius ; - a man of activity; a man of life, fire, and enterprise; the leader of a cause, &c.;-in the arts and literature, strength of resemblance ; life ; force of expression or character; -also, real meaning; import; intent;-especially, pure or refined meaning ;-the renewed nature in man:- the influences of the Holy Spirit ;-a liquid produced by distillation ; especially, alcohol ;-hence, pl. rum, whisky, brandy, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol ; -Holy Spirit, or The Spirit, the third person of the Trinity; the Holy Ghost.