Definition of alcohol:

• Pure or highly rectified spirit, obtained from fermented saccharine solutions by distillation, and the intoxicating principle of nil vinous and spirituous liquors.
• Spirits of wine; distilled spirits highly rectified; the intoxicating principle in all spirituous or fermented liquors.

Usage examples for alcohol

1. The quantity of alcohol which will send one man to sleep, will render another unusually brilliant- will make this maudlin, and that irritable.  Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer

2. One quart of grain alcohol.  The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler Lena K. Sadler

3. In his brandy and water he had not spared alcohol, and the quantity was considerable.  Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

4. Lucy, said Evelyn, has as much idea of money as an alcohol lamp has.  We Three by Gouverneur Morris