Crossword-Solution: KOUMISS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Koumiss | n. | An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe. |
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| made originally by nomads of central Asia | 1 answer |
| kumiss | 2 answers |
| FERMENTED milk product | 6 answers |
| CENTRAL Asian alcoholic beverage | 7 answers |
| liquor | 34 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with KOUMISS (5)
Everywhere one sees huge buildings--steam flour-mills, tobacco-factories, salt-mines, soap and candle factories, tanneries--and last, not least, palaces for the sale of _koumiss_ or fermented mare's milk, a sanitary beverage; and extensive establishments, especially near Samara, for the _koumiss_ cure,--fashionable resorts as watering-places, frequented by persons affected by consumption, and other real or imaginary ailments.
Koumiss contains about one per cent each of lactic acid and alcohol, and the casein and other nutrients are somewhat modified by the fermentation changes.
Nor is this all which the horse does for him; it is food both in its life and in its death;--when dead, it nourishes him with its flesh, and, while alive, it supplies its milk for an intoxicating liquor which, under the name of _koumiss_, has from time immemorial served the Tartar instead of wine or spirits.
Two entertainments were given by the ladies of the court, in which the state queens of Timour, nine in number, sat in a row, and here pages handed round wine, not _koumiss_, in golden cups, which they were not slow in emptying.
Moreover, they were entertained at a banquet which lasted the greater part of the day; and an intoxicating liquor, not wine, which was sweet and pleasant, was freely presented to them; evidently the Tartar _koumiss_.[15] The next day they had a second entertainment in a still more splendid tent; the hangings were of embroidered silk, and the throne, the cups, and the vases were of gold.