- Passes out - Swoons - The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the
distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints,
and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This
crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil.
- Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the
aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found
in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids,
C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively
orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.