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Prohibition Definition

Blind
(a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation
Blind
(a.) Not having the faculty of discernment
Blind
(a.) Undiscerning
Blind
(a.) Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind
Blind
(a.) Involved
Blind
(a.) Having no openings for light or passage
Blind
(a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible
Blind
(a.) Abortive
Blind
(v. t.) To make blind
Blind
(v. t.) To deprive partially of vision
Blind
(v. t.) To darken
Blind
(v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel
Blind
(n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light
Blind
(n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design
Blind
(n.) A blindage. See Blindage.
Blind
(n.) A halting place.
Blind
(n.) Alt. of Blinde
By-drinking
(n.) A drinking between meals.
Club
(n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand
Club
(n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
Club
(n.) An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.
Club
(n.) A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it
Club
(v. t.) To beat with a club.
Club
(v. t.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
Club
(v. t.) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end
Club
(v. t.) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment
Club
(v. i.) To form a club
Club
(v. i.) To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense
Club
(v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Club-rush
(n.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush.
Club-shaped
(a.) Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennae of certain insects.
Color-blind
(a.) Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
Drinking
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drink
Drinking
(n.) The act of one who drinks
Drinking
(n.) The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
Drinking
(n.) An entertainment with liquors
Hist
(interj.) Hush
Hoodman-blind
(n.) An old term for blindman's buff.
Illicit
(a.) Not permitted or allowed
Prohibition
(n.) The act of prohibiting
Prohibition
(n.) Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
Sand-blind
(a.) Having defective sight
Snow-blind
(a.) Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow.
Star-blind
(a.) Half blind.
Stock-blind
(a.) Blind as a stock
Stone-blind
(a.) As blind as a stone
Tiger
(n.) A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.
Tiger
(n.) Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
Tiger
(n.) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
Tiger
(n.) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering

speakeasy; blind pig; blind tiger [Am.] [hist.] (illicit drinking club during Prohibition) Bedeutung

blind alley (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement, all the clues led the police into blind alleys, so far every road that we've been down has turned out to be a blind alley
double-blind procedure
double-blind experiment
double-blind study
an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects
prohibition
inhibition forbiddance
the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof), they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter, a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages, he ignored his parents' forbiddance
blind flying
blind landing
using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc.
blind stitching stitching that is not easily seen or noticed
drink
drinking boozing
drunkenness
crapulence
the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess, drink was his downfall
drinking bout a long period of drinking
double blind a test procedure in which the identity of those receiving the intervention is concealed from both the administrators and the subjects until after the test is completed, designed to reduce or eliminate bias in the results
drinking
imbibing
imbibition
the act of consuming liquids
tiger cub a young tiger
sand tiger
sand shark
Carcharias taurus
Odontaspis taurus
shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic, sometimes dangerous to swimmers
tiger shark
Galeocerdo cuvieri
large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body
tiger salamander
Ambystoma tigrinum
widely distributed brown or black North American salamander with vertical yellowish blotches
amphiuma
congo snake
congo eel
blind eel
aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet, of still muddy waters in the southern United States
blind snake
worm snake
wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes
western blind snake
Leptotyphlops humilis
burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States
tiger snake
Notechis scutatus
highly venomous brown-and-yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania
tiger rattlesnake
Crotalus tigris
having irregularly cross-banded back, of arid foothills and canyons of southern Arizona and Mexico
thylacine
Tasmanian wolf
Tasmanian tiger
Thylacinus cynocephalus
rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back, probably extinct
tiger cowrie
Cypraea tigris
cowrie whose shell is used for ornament
tiger cat a cat having a striped coat
tiger cat Felis tigrina medium-sized wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-striped coat
tiger
Panthera tigris
large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes, endangered
Bengal tiger southern short-haired tiger
saber-toothed tiger
sabertooth
any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth, from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene
false saber-toothed tiger North American cat of the Miocene and Pliocene, much earlier and less specialized than members of the genus Smiledon
tiger beetle active usually brightolored beetle that preys on other insects
Asian tiger mosquito
Aedes albopictus
striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean, potential carrier of serious diseases
tiger moth medium-sized moth with long richly colored and intricately patterned wings, larvae are called woolly bears
blind
screen
a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight, they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
blind a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters), he waited impatiently in the blind
blind alley
cul de sac
dead-end street
impasse
a street with only one way in or out
blind corner a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving
blind curve
blind bend
a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving
cabaret
nightclub
night club
club nightspot
a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink, don't expect a good meal at a cabaret, the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night, he played the drums at a jazz club
club stout stick that is larger at one end, he carried a club in self defense, he felt as if he had been hit with a club
club a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it, he led a small club, clubs were trumps
club car
lounge car
railroad car having a bar and tables and lounge chairs
club drug a controlled substance that is usually taken by young people at dance clubs and raves
clubhouse
club
a building that is occupied by a social club, the clubhouse needed a new roof
drinking fountain
water fountain
bubbler
a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water
drinking vessel a vessel intended for drinking
glass
drinking glass
a container for holding liquids while drinking
golf club
golflub
club
golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball
golflub head
club head
club-head
clubhead
(golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball
health spa
spa health club
a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness
Indian club a bottle-shaped club used in exercises
roller blind a window shade that rolls up out of the way
service club a recreational center for servicemen
speakeasy (during prohibition) an illegal barroom
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Prohibition bezeichnet das Verbot bestimmter Drogen. Ziel einer Prohibition ist es ? in der Regel ?, die Bevölkerung vor negativen Wirkungen der verbotenen Substanzen zu schützen; diese Ziele können religiös, politisch, wirtschaftlich oder aus gesundheitlicher Fürsorge definiert und motiviert sein. Damit steht eine Prohibition in Konflikt mit Freiheits- und Persönlichkeitsrechten, wie beispielsweise persönlicher Selbstbestimmung, freiem Zugang zu Märkten etc.