noun. A fortified Spanish wine ranging from very dry to sweet and from amber to brown.

noun. A similar wine made elsewhere.

noun. Originally, the wine of Xeres; hence; a general name for the strong white wines of the south of Spain, of all qualities except the lowest.

noun. A small wine-glass of the size and form commonly used for sherry and similar wines.

noun. A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.

noun. a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.

noun. A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.

noun. A variety of sherry.

noun. A glass of sherry.

noun. dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif

"He could never tell Madeira from sherry, -- nay, an Oriental friend having sent him a butt of _sheeraz_, when he {p. 253} remembered the circumstance some time afterwards, and called for a bottle to have Sir John Malcolm's opinion of its quality, it turned out that his butler, mistaking the label, had already served up half the bin as _sherry_."

amontillado  

fortified wine  

amontillado  manzanilla  

Arie  Azeri  Barrie  Barry  Berri  

absinthe  allspice  brandy  champagne  cider