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Cider

a fermented liquor made from the expressed juice of apples. The apples are ground and crushed until they are reduced to a pulp, the juice is allowed to run into casks, where it is freely exposed to the air until fermentation takes place, when a clear liquor of a pale-brown or amber color is the result. Worcester, Hereford, and Devon are the great cider-producing counties of England. In France, Germany, and other countries, and particularly in North America, it is also largely made. It contains from 4 or 5 to 10 per cent. of alcohol, and is intoxicating if drunk in quantities. a CIENFUEGOS (the-en-fwā'gōs), port and city of Cuba, on the S. coast, CIGAR at the mouth of Iagua bay, about 200 miles from Havana. Cienfuegos is the center of the Cuban sugar trade, and is connected by rail with Havana. There are soap and ice plants and cacao, molasses, sugar, and tobacco are exported. It has one of the best natural harbors in the world. Pop. about 90,000.

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