Also 7 brandwine, brandewine, brandy-wine, brandee. [The orig. form brandwine, brandewine is a. Du. brandewijn ‘burnt’ (i.e., distilled) wine. In familiar use abbreviated as brandy as early as 1657; but the fuller form was retained in official use (customs tariffs, acts of parliament, etc.) down to the end of 17th c., being latterly, as the spelling shows, regarded as a compound of brandy + wine.]
1. Properly an ardent spirit distilled from wine or grapes; but the name is also applied to spirits of similar flavor and appearance, obtained from other materials.
α. 1622. Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, III. i. Buy any brand-wine, buy any brand-wine?
c. 1650. Roxb. Ballads (1886), VI. 320. It is more fine than Brandewine, The Butterboxes’ Poison.
1652. Proc. Parliament, No. 153. 2391. Laden with Woolls, Brandy Wine and Salt.
1697. View of Penal Laws, 173. No Aqua-Vitæ or Brandy-Wine shall be imported into England.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), V. 23. I was entertained, With Kisses fine, and Brandy Wine.
β. 1657. Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), Introd. 5. The late Dutch war … occasioned the bringing in of such superfluity of brandy.
1663. Hickeringill, Jamaica, 78. Of your Wine and Brandee, you’le be free.
1790. Burns, Scots Prol., 4. Does nonsense mend, like brandy, when imported?
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., III. ii. 158. And take his snack of brandy for digestion.
2. Comb. and attrib., as brandy-cag, -devil, -dough, -flask, -keg, -man, -merchant, -shop, and in the names of drinks as brandy and soda, brandy and water, brandy-flip, -posset, -punch, etc.; † brandy-face; brandy-faced, -burnt adjs.; also brandy-ball, a kind of sweet; † brandy-cherry = cherry-brandy; also cherries preserved in brandy; so brandy-peach, etc.; brandy paper, paper steeped in brandy; brandy-snap, wafer-like gingerbread. Also BRANDY-BOTTLE, BRANDY-PAWNEE.
1862. Mayhew, Crim. Prisons, 51. Buttons, that have much the appearance of small *brandy-balls.
1838. Hawthorne, Amer. Note-bks. (1871), I. 161. A large … *brandy-burnt, heavy-faced man.
1795. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Lousiad, II. Wks. 1812, I. 227. And for a cruet stands a *brandy-cag.
a. 1687. Cotton, Aeneid II. Burl. (1692), 83. Whether ’t was that she … Fainted for want of *brandy-cherry.
1820. Shelley, Œdipus Tyr., I. i. Fat martyrs to the persecution Of stifling turtle-soup and *brandy-devils.
1799. G. Smith, Laboratory, I. 21. Supplied with *brandy dough.
a. 1687. Cotton, Aeneid II. Burl. (1692), 85. You goodman *Brandy-face, unfist her.
1861. Sala, Tw. round Clock, 284. Hulking labourers and *brandy-faced viragos, squabbling at tavern doors.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple (1863), 168. I’ve emptied the *brandy-flask; and that’s a bad job.
1865. E. Burritt, Walk to Land’s End, 62. Articles of food and drink … such as egg-nog and *brandy-flip.
1865. N. Brit. Rev., Sept., 227. Ula informed me that he had lost the *brandy-keg.
1723. Lond. Gaz., No. 6172/9. Henry Gillum … *Brandyman.
a. 1771. Smollett, Humph. Cl. (1815), 139. After some unsuccessful essays in the way of poetry, he commenced *brandy-merchant.
1769. Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 227. Tie them down with *brandy papers over them.
1781. Hayley, Triumphs Temper, III. 485.
| And, by her soft address seducing each, | |
| Eager she plies them with a *Brandy Peach. |
1769. Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 309. To make a *Brandy Posset.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxvi. Mr. Jarvie compounded … a very small bowl of *brandy-punch.
1705. Addison, Play-house (R.).
| Forgets his Pomp, dead to Ambitious Fires, | |
| And to some peaceful *Brandy-Shop retires. |
1871. M. Collins, Mrq. & Merch., I. ix. 300. Send me … a … supply of *brandy and soda.
1829. Marryat, F. Mildmay, xi. A hot … glass of *brandy-and-water.
