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nounspirits of wine (uncountable)
alternative spirit of wine
- archaicuncountableEthanol.
The genuine also ought to dissolve entirely in a mixture of four parts of spirits of wine , with one of rectified ether
1837, James Rennie, A New Supplement to the Latest Pharmacopoeias of London […]
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