bourbon

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A whiskey distilled from a fermented mash containing not less than 51 percent corn in addition to malt and rye.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A member of the last royal family of France, or of any of its branches. The family took its name from its ancient seigniory of Bourbon (now Bourbon l'Archambault, in the department of Allier), and succeeded to the throne by collateral inheritance in 1589, in the person of Henry IV. The Bourbon dynasty was deposed in 1792, and restored in 1814. The revolution of 1830 brought to the throne Louis Philippe (who was deposed in 1848), of the younger or Orleans branch, which succeeded to all the claims of the family on the extinction of the elder branch in 1883. A line of Bourbon sovereigns has reigned in Spain (with two interruptions) since 1700, and a branch of this line held the throne of Naples or the Two Sicilies from 1735 to 1861.
2. n. One who, as was said of the Bourbons, “forgets nothing and learns nothing”; hence, in United States politics, an extreme conservative; especially, one who is behind the time and is opposed to all progress: originally applied to certain members of the Democratic party.
3. n. [lowercase] A kind of whisky made of wheat or Indian corn: originally limited to the corn-whisky made in Bourbon county, Kentucky.

Wiktionary

1. n. A whiskey distilled from a mixture of grains in which more than half is maize, aged in oak barrels. Made chiefly in the United States.
2. n. A serving of bourbon
3. n. A Bourbon biscuit

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.
2. n. A politician who is behind the age; a ruler or politician who neither forgets nor learns anything; an obstinate conservative.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily
2. n. a member of the European royal family that ruled France
3. n. a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South)
4. n. whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels