noun
definition
An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
definition
Any variety of brandy.
definition
A glass of brandy.
verb
definition
To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.
Examples of brandy in a Sentence
Brandy is produced in large quantities.
The ocean breeze brought the familiar scent of brandy.
Gabe tossed the brandy over the side of the fortress wall and caught her as she tried to escape.
She understood why Daniela kept feeding her brandy the night before.
It's closer to brandy.
As if on cue, the flushed cook returned for her plate, and Daniela ordered the brandy and two glasses.
As if sensing her distress, Daniela poured her another two shots of brandy.
She drank more brandy, a familiar sense of panic deep in her chest.
The Charente region, the grapes of which furnish brandy, as do those of Armagnac (department of Gers).
Give ether and brandy subcutaneously and apply hot water-bottles and blankets if there are signs of collapse.
Besides manufactures of brandy, flour, oil, soap, linen and cloth, it has an active trade in wheat, wine and fruit, especially melons.
There is a thriving trade in wine, fruit, wheat, cattle, brandy, chalk and soap.
The principal manufactures are woollen, linen, cotton, cast-iron goods, beet-sugar, leather and brandy.
Brandy distilling is, after agriculture, the chief local industry.
Other articles of export are wine, brandy, hides and tobacco.
In the season of 1904-1905, which may be taken as typical, 179 estates, with a planted area of 431,056 acres, produced 11,576,137 tons of cane, and yielded - in addition to alcohol, brandy and molasses-1,089,814 tons of sugar.
Building materials, brandy and coal are among the imports.
Chinon has trade in wheat, brandy, red wine and plums. Basket and rope manufacture, tanning and cooperage are among its industries.
On the slope of its hills grow the grapes from which the famous Armagnac brandy is made.
His Admoni- 'ion to the Drinkers of Gin, Brandy, &c., published anonymously in 1734, has been several times reprinted.
Dijon is well known for its mustard, and for the black currant liqueur called cassis de Dijon; its industries include the manufacture of machinery, automobiles, bicycles, soap, biscuits, brandy, leather, boots and shoes, candles and hosiery.
As to the products of other industries closely related to agriculture that of beer and brandy varied, and was at times extraordinarily large.
On the 9th of June the cavalry combat of Brandy Station made it clear to the Federal staff that Lee was about to use the Valley once more to screen an invasion of Maryland.
The district about Parras, in southern Coahuila, produces grapes, which are principally used in the manufacture of wine and brandy.
It has a small river-port, and carries on trade in wine, brandy, grain, fruit and timber.
Maize, beans and bananas, varied occasionally with dried meat and fresh pork, form their staple diet; drunkenness is common on pay-days and festivals, when large quantities of a fiery brandy called chicha are consumed.
In addition to the breweries, rum and brandy distilleries, sugar mills and tobacco factories, which are sometimes worked as adjuncts to the plantations, there are many purely urban industries, such as the manufacture of woollen and cotton goods on a large scale, and manufactures of building material and furniture; but these industries are far less important than agriculture.
These people showed, to their own ruin, a reckless liking for the brandy of the white man.
Laval insisted that the traders should not supply brandy to the natives.
Brandy distilleries are numerous, and there is some trade in wood; but no local industry can rival agriculture and stock-breeding, which furnish the bulk of the exports.
Wax is bleached to a considerable extent, and there are numerous tobacco factories, tanneries, breweries, vinegar works and brandy distilleries.
Cloth, linen, paper, flour and brandy are manufactured, and there are iron foundries and saw-mills.
Tanning and wagon-building are among the industries, but the surrounding country is one of the largest wine and brandy producing districts in the province.
It has an important trade with Constantinople in butter and cheese, and also exports wine, brandy, cereals and tobacco.
Other branches of industry include carpet-weaving at Deventer, the distillation of brandy, gin and liqueurs at Schiedam, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and beer-brewing in most of the principal towns; shoe-making and leather-tanning in the Langstraat district of North Brabant; paper-making at Apeldoorn, on the Zaan, and in Limburg; the manufacture of earthenware and faience at Maastricht, the Hague and Delft, as well as at Utrecht, Purmerend and Makkum; clay pipes and stearine candles at Gouda; margarine at Osch; chocolate at Weesp and on the Zaan; mat-plaiting and broom-making at Genemuiden and Blokzyl; diamondcutting and the manufacture of quinine at Amsterdam; and the making of cigars and snuff at Eindhoven, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Kampen, &c. Shipbuilding is of no small importance in Holland, not only in the greater, but also in the smaller towns along the rivers and canals.
At the beginning of the autumn session a union of 204 members of the Reichstag was formed for the discussion of econolnic questions, and they accepted Bismarcks reforms. In December he was therefore able to issue a memorandum explaining his policy; it included a moderate duty, about 5%, on all imported goods, with the exception of raw material required for German manufactures (this was a return to the old Prussian principle); high finance duties on tobacco, beer, brandy and petroleum; and protective duties on iron, corn, cattle, wood, wine and sugar.
Few of the proposals were carried in their entirety, many were completely lost; the tobacco monopoly and the brandy monopoly were contemptuously rejected by enormous majorities; even an increase of the tax on tobacco was refused; the first proposals for a subsidy to the Norddeutsche Lloyd were rejected.
In the western country numerous posts were founded, wherein fur-trader and missionary were often at variance, the trader finding brandy his best medium of exchange, while the missionary tried in vain to stay its ravages among his flock.
Brandy, cigars and dyestuffs are among the manufactures of the place.
This was done during the year 1877, and in the new treaty, while raw material was still imported free of duty, a low duty was placed on textile goods as well as on corn, and the excise on sugar and brandy was raised.
When the crews of the whale-boats were conveying stores, the forwarding officers tried to keep brandy and such like medical comforts from the European crews, coffee and tea from Canadian voyageurs and sugar from Kroo boys.
The best-known grape-producing districts are Moquegua (capital) and Locumbathe product being converted into wine and brandy for export.
It is the seat of the public offices for the district, possesses an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, a synagogue, and a gymnasium established in the old Jesuit college, and has manufactures of machinery, woollens, tiles, brandy and beer.
Silk, linen, flour, wine, brandy, oil, salt and soap are the chief industrial products.
The Berbers, though Mahommedans, do not often observe the prescribed ablutions; they break their fast at Ramadan; and eat wild boar's flesh and drink fig brandy.
Nearly all the trade in the brandy manufactured in the government of Kharkov, and destined for the governments of Ekaterinoslav and Taurida, is concentrated here, as also is the trade in linseed between the districts situated on the left affluents of the Dnieper and the southern ports.
The town is famous for its amber, beer, brandy and liqueurs, and its transit trade makes it one of the most important commercial cities of northern Europe.
Among the white wines we have the full sweet Sauternes, the relatively dry and elegant Graves and Chablis, and the light white wines which produce champagne and brandy.
This liqueur is made of fine wine, brandy and candied sugar.
When, after the approach of the cold weather, the lees have dropped, the wines are racked and a further addition of brandy is made.