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Birch wine , Cape wine, etc. See under Birch, Cape, etc. — Spirit of wine. See under Spirit.
— To have drunk wine of ape or wine ape, to be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] Chaucer. —
Wine acid. (Chem.) See Tartaric acid, under Tartaric. [Colloq.] — Wine apple (Bot.), a large red
apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor. — Wine bag, a wine skin. — Wine biscuit, a kind of
sweet biscuit served with wine. — Wine cask, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held,
wine. — Wine cellar, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine. — Wine cooler, a vessel of porous
earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a stand for wine bottles, containing
ice. — Wine fly (Zoöl.), small two-winged fly of the genus Piophila, whose larva lives in wine, cider,
and other fermented liquors. — Wine grower, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine. —
Wine measure, the measure by which wines and other spirits are sold, smaller than beer measure. —
Wine merchant, a merchant who deals in wines. — Wine of opium (Pharm.), a solution of opium in
aromatized sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; — also Sydenham's laudanum.
— Wine press, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to extract their juice. — Wine
skin, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various countries, for carrying wine. — Wine stone, a kind of
crust deposited in wine casks. See 1st Tartar, 1. — Wine vault. (a) A vault where wine is stored.
(b) A place where wine is served at the bar, or at tables; a dramshop. Dickens. — Wine vinegar, vinegar
made from wine. — Wine whey, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of wine.
Wineberry
(Wine"ber`ry) n. (Bot.) (a) The red currant. (b) The bilberry. (c) A peculiar New Zealand
shrub in which the petals ripen and afford an abundant purple juice from which a kind of wine is made.
The plant also grows in Chili.
Winebibber
(Wine"bib`ber) n. One who drinks much wine. Prov. xxiii. 20. — Wine"bib`bing n.
Wineglass
(Wine"glass`) n. A small glass from which to drink wine.
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