SWILL

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To wash; to drench. [Obs.] As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Shak.

2.
v.

To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett.

3.
v.

To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

4.
v.

To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess. South.

5.
n.

The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.

6.
n.

Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

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