Crossword-Solution: SAMSHOO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Samshoo | n. | Alt. of Samshu |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Chinese alcoholic drink | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SAMSHOO (5)
Who ever sees in China a tipsy man reeling about a crowded thoroughfare, or lying with his head in a ditch by the side of some country road? The Chinese people are naturally sober, peaceful, and industrious; they fly from intoxicating, quarrelsome samshoo, to the more congenial opium-pipe, which soothes the weary brain, induces sleep, and invigorates the tired body.
Samshoo, a fiery distillation from rice, is the intoxicant of Japan, and was that of China before opium took its place.[91] The West Indians extract a strong spirit-rum from sugar-cane.
All the native drinks consist of nothing but poor-flavoured, highly-perfumed drinks, chiefly distilled from millet and rice, and known by the general name of Samshoo, although this name is solely applicable to that obtained from rice, which somewhat resembles arrack.
SAMSHOO, SAMSHU, sam'sh[=oo], _n._ an ardent spirit distilled by the Chinese from rice: any kind of spirits.
The Chinese have another polite mode of making beasts of themselves, consisting of a sort of forfeit game, in which one holds up his fingers and the other, before seeing them, quickly guesses the number held up, the loser's penalty being to swallow a cupful of wine or _samshoo_, and then, to show his superior breeding and capacity, to hold it aloft, bottom up, after each draught.