·noun An impalpable powder.
II. Alcohol ·noun The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
III. Alcohol ·noun 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 (C2H5OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11OH) or fusel oil, ·etc.
IV. Alcohol ·noun 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.