| Bead proof |
Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters. |
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| Bead proof |
A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken. |
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| Plot-proof |
Secure against harm by plots. |
a. |
| Proof |
Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. |
n. |
| Proof |
That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration. |
n. |
| Proof |
The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies. |
n. |
| Proof |
Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken. |
n. |
| Proof |
A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet. |
n. |
| Proof |
A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5. |
n. |
| Proof |
Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof. |
v. t. |
| Proof |
Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge. |
a. |
| Proof |
Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof. |
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| Proof |
Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors. |
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| Proof-arm |
To arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself. |
v. t. |
| Proof-proof |
Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. |
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| Shame |
A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal. |
n. |
| Shame |
Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonor; ignominy; derision; contempt. |
n. |
| Shame |
The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach, and degrades a person in the estimation of others; disgrace. |
n. |
| Shame |
The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts. |
n. |
| Shame |
To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame. |
v. t. |