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French
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bière
, ale
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Ale
- (n.) A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk.
- (n.) An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.
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• Ale silver
- () A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.
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• Aleconner
- (n.) Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.]
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letter, bribe, phlegmatic, culprit, plodder, tor, deity, allegation, vacation, obliterate, parasitism, equipage, pluck, jailer, cul-de-sac, know-how, crutches, antidote, consignment, counterweight, jade, flatten out, surveillance, quire, sharpen, wishes, wiry, wipe, leeward, winning, fen, wink, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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