My Lord, will you walk? dinner is ready. Much Ado About Nothing. ii, 3. Sit down and feed and welcome to our table. As You Like It. ii, 7, 1. 106. Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer. Merchant of Venice, iii, 2. Once more I shower a welcome on ye, welcome all, King Henry VIII, i, 4. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue, Macbeth, i, 5. Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast. Comedy of Errors. iii, 1. Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing, Troilus and Cressida, iii, 3, The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony, Hamlet, ii, 3, WINE The real Simon Pure. CENTLIVRE, Bold Stroke for Wife. v. Good wine needs no bush. As You Like It. Epilogue. Across the walnuts and the wine. TENNYSON, Miller's Daughter. And much of mirth and moderate wine. COWLEY, Liberty. He calls for wine: " a health" quoth he. Taming of the Shrew. iii, 2. The choice and master spirits of this age. Julius Cæsar. iii, 1. From wine what sudden friendship springs? GAY, Fables. Pt. II, 6. Flow, wine! smile, woman! and the universe is con soled! BÉRANGER. Put this in any liquid thing you will, and drink it off. Romeo and Juliet. v, I. For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, and makes his pulses fly. WILLIS, Saturday Afternoon. Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used; exclaim no more against it. Othello, ii, 3, 1. 313. Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, HORACE. HORACE, Odyssey. Bk. XIV, 1. 520. Popular Terms Explained Glass of Call things by their right names. brandy and water. That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.-ROBERT HALL. Popular Terms Explained ABSINTHE.-A highly aromatic liqueur, opaline-green in colour, and bitter to the taste. It is made by steeping such herbs as Artemisia Absinthium, A. Autellina, A. Spicata, in alcohol or strong spirit. It acts as a tonic, but excessive use creates a morbid condition. APOTHECARY'S MEASURE: 60 minims (drops). 8 drams (teasp.). 16 ounces.. 2 pints. 4 quarts. 311⁄2 gallons.. 2 bbls. (63 gals.). 2 pipes..... .I dram .I ounce .I pint . I quart .I gallon . I barrel .I hogsh'd I pipe .....I tun BARBECUE.-Originally, the meaning was to cure by smoking or drying on a barbecue; to dress and roast whole as an ox or a hog, by splitting it to the backbone, and roasting it on a gridiron; so that now the word signifies something in the nature of a crude sort of banquet or picnic in the woods at which such festivities are enjoyed, usually during campaigns of political nature. BARREL.—A wine-barrel contains 311⁄2 wine-gallons; the London ale-barrel contains 32 beer gallons; the London beer-barrel contains 36 beer gallons. The contents are equivalent to 126 quarts; 252 pints; 504 breakfast-cups or tumblers; 1,008 gills or teacups; 2,016 |