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Rum   /rəm/   Listen
Rum

noun
1.
Liquor distilled from fermented molasses.
2.
A card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards.  Synonym: rummy.
adjective
(compar. rummer; superl. rummest)
1.
Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected.  Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rummy, singular.  "Her speech has a funny twang" , "They have some funny ideas about war" , "Had an odd name" , "The peculiar aromatic odor of cloves" , "Something definitely queer about this town" , "What a rum fellow" , "Singular behavior"



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"Rum" Quotes from Famous Books



... deep trench dug for the palisades. Here also were found a band of natives, amounting to about seventy men, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Chief, as they styled Mackenzie, and thirsting especially for tobacco and rum, both of which—unlike the natives of the far north—they ...
— The Pioneers • R.M. Ballantyne
... proportion of the necessities of life and luxuries—if luxuries they could be called; they would hardly be so considered by us—were imported from England or elsewhere. The leading occupations were farming, fishing, making New England rum, importing rum, sugar, and molasses from the West Indies, and dry goods from England. The common people were poor enough, in comparison with the condition of the same class at the present time, when they make as ...
— The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England • Various
... flour, a pinch of salt, a liquor glass of rum, the yolks of three eggs and a quantity of lukewarm water into a mixing dish and beat these together till it shrinks from the dish. Then mix in the well-beaten whites of the eggs and then allow to rise for an hour or so. Have ...
— Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them • Cora Moore
... road. The little eyes of the fleshy rubicond host, loafing comfortably in shirt-sleeves, glistened as he received the Pantagruelian order and brought the great tankard with a modest half pint for me, and a jorum of rum for himself. Paragot was worthy of ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... pine-tree divested of its lower branches, and having only a small tuft at the top remaining. This operation is usually performed at the instance of some individual emulous of fame. He treats his companions with rum, and they in return strip the tree of its branches, and ever after designate ...
— Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 • John Franklin


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