Definition of "wine" []

• A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various kinds of grapes, usually containing from 10 to 15 percent alcohol by volume. (noun)
• A beverage made of the fermented juice of any of various other fruits or plants. (noun)
• Something that intoxicates or exhilarates. (noun)
• The color of red wine. (noun)
• To provide or entertain with wine. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "“_And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine_” ..."
• "A ready re-agent for detecting the presence of lead, or any other deleterious metal in wine, is known by the name of the _wine test_."
• "The preparation of an astringent extract, to produce, from spoiled home-made and foreign wines, a "genuine old Port," by mere admixture; or to impart to a weak wine a rough austere taste, a fine colour, and a peculiar flavour; forms one branch of the business of particular wine-coopers: while the mellowing and restoring of spoiled white wines, is the sole occupation of men who are called _refiners of wine_."