spirits of wine

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spirits of wine (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Ethanol.
    • 1837, James Rennie, A New Supplement to the Latest Pharmacopoeias of London […] :
      The genuine also ought to dissolve entirely in a mixture of four parts of spirits of wine , with one of rectified ether
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