Rum
A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor.
Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow.
A queer or odd person or thing; a country parson.
Related Definitions:
Also,
As,
Boiled,
Cane,
Collective,
Country,
Distilled,
Fellow,
For,
Former,
From,
Generic,
Idea,
Intoxicating,
Juice,
Kind,
Lees,
Liquor,
Molasses,
Name,
Odd,
Of,
Old-Fashioned,
Or,
Parson,
Person,
Queer,
Rum,
Sometimes,
The,
Thing,
Treacle,
Used
Rum Quotations
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
Ambrose Bierce
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Maggie Smith
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
Patrick Gordon
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.
George Clymer
More Rum Quotations
Rum Translations
rum in Dutch is rum
rum in Finnish is rommi
rum in French is rhum
rum in Hungarian is rum, szesz, szeszes ital, fura
rum in Spanish is ron
rum in Swedish is rom-sprit, underlig
Share with your Friends
Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
