Fusel

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fusel \Fu"sel\, n., Fusel oil \Fu"sel oil\ [G. fusel bad
     liquor.] (Chem.)
     A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic
     liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an
     undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the
     higher alcohols and compound ethers, but mostly of amyl


     alcohol; hence, amyl alcohol or a mixture of amyl alcohols.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]