Ăl'co-hol, n.

n. [Ar. al-kohl, a powder of antimony to paint the eyebrows with. The name was afterward applied, on account of the fineness of this powder, to highly rectified spirits, a signification unknown in Arabia; Fr. alcohol and alcool.] Pure or highly rectified spirit, extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation; the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented liquors. Ure.