2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to
bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary
acts on behalf of the company. [Eng.] Mozley & W.
Li*quid"i*ty (l*kwd"*t), n. [L. liquiditas, fr. liquidus liquid: cf. F.
liquidité.] The state or quality of being liquid.
Liq"uid*ize (lk"wd*z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquidized (- zd); p. pr. &
vb. n. Liquidizing (- `zng).] To render liquid.
Liq"uid*ly, adv. In a liquid manner; flowingly.
Liq"uid*ness, n. The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity;
fluency.
Liq"uor (lk"r), n. [OE. licour, licur, OF. licur, F. liqueur, fr. L.
liquor, fr. liquere to be liquid. See Liquid, and cf. Liqueur.] 1. Any
liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
2. Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or
fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
3. (Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; --
distinguished from tincture and aqua.
The U. S. Pharmacopœia includes, in this class of preparations, all
aqueous solutions without sugar, in which the substance acted on is
wholly soluble in water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter
is gaseous or very volatile, as in the aquæ or waters. U. S. Disp.
Labarraque's liquor (Old Chem.), a solution of an alkaline
hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a
disinfectant. -- Liquor of flints, or Liquor silicum (Old Chem.),
soluble glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered flints.
See Soluble glass, under Glass. -- Liquor of Libavius. (Old Chem.) See
Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming. -- Liquor sanguinis (sn"gwn*s)
(Physiol.), the blood plasma. -- Liquor thief, a tube for taking
samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole. -- To be in
liquor, to be intoxicated.
Liq"uor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquored (-rd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Liquoring.] 1. To supply with liquor. [R.]