Crossword-Solution: OVERPROOF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overproof | a. | Containing more alcohol than proof spirit; stronger than proof spirit; that is, containing more than 49.3 per cent by weight of alcohol. |
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Hint 1 meaning
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 OVERPROOF (5)
You savvy?” The gins grinned uncomprehendingly, but held out their pannikins, and into each he poured a three-finger nip of raw overproof rum that would have burnt the palate of Satan himself.
They might be forty overproof and played by forty bands, and every darned piccolo of them out of tune, if only we were making money.
The specific gravity of absolute alcohol is 0.793811; hence, the weight of one gallon will be 7.93811 lbs., and its strength is estimated at 75.25 overproof.
Besides, you forget that we have no spirits to preserve it in, except our own, which I admit are pretty high--a good deal overproof, considering the circumstances in which we are placed, and the unheard-of trials we have to endure.
Our Excise officers enter the cellars of the wholesale and retail spirit-dealers, only to gauge the strength of the spirit, and to ascertain how much it may be overproof, which alone regulates the Government duty; but for the sake of the public health I would go further than this.