rectified spirit

British  

noun

1. chem a constant-boiling mixture of ethanol and water, containing 95.6 per cent ethanol

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Example Sentences

She has styled her hair with rice starch and rectified spirit.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013

Ring pillows we made out of grass and bandages, but a fractured thigh, as you know, must lie upon his back, and we had little enough rectified spirit to harden the complaining flesh.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Dolbey, Robert Valentine

When all the water has been aspirated through the pipette into the filter flask, fill the beaker with rectified spirit and when this is exhausted refill with ether.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)

The "extract of jasmine" is prepared by pouring rectified spirit on the jasmine pomade or oil, and allowing them to remain together for a fortnight at a summer heat.

From The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants by Piesse, George William Septimus

Podophyll′in, the resin obtained by means of rectified spirit from its root.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various