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fusel oil - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'fusel oil' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fusel oil
- A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.