The New Student's Reference Work/Gin

Gin or Geneva, an drink, distilled from  or from unmalted  or other grain and afterward flavored. The gin, which forms the common drink of the lower classes of, is flavored very slightly with oil of and common. Usually about five ounces of spirit of turpentine and three and one half pounds of salt are mixed in ten gallons of water; this is then placed with 80 gallons of corn-spirit in a still and allowed to distill. Gin is an article of great manufacture in, whence comes most of that used in the. Very little pure gin is found; it consists of 51.6 parts of alcohol in 100 parts.