Wine.

A magnum of wine is two quarts; a tappit-hen of wine or rum is a double magnum; a jeroboam of wine or rum is a doubletappit-hen”; and a rehoboam (q.v.) is a double jeroboam.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Wilmington
Wilt or Welk
Wiltshire
Winchester
Wind Egg
Winds
Windfall
Windmills
Windmill Street
Window. (Norwegian, vindue.)
Wine
Wine
Wine-month. (Anglo-Saxon, Win-monath.)
Wine Mingled with Myrrh (Mark xv. 23)
Wintrith
Wing, Wings
Wings of Azrael (The)
Winged Rooks
Winifred (St.)
Winkle (Rip van)
Wint-monath [Wind-month]