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Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.

A tall drinking cup.

k. -- Pot cheese, cottage cheese. See under Cottage. -- Pot companion, a companion in drinking. -- Pot hanger, a pothook. -- Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. -- Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will…

The act of drinking. Jer. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to drinking. Ld. Lytton.

to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc. I. Watts. The guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my powers, drove the grossness . . . into a received belief. Shak.

Dressing one's self for show; prinking. [Obs.]

declivous; inclined; not level. Since the floods demand, For their descent, a prone and sinking land. Blackmore.

The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another. [Obs.] Abp. Potter.

To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup. [Obs.] The lovely sorceress mixed, and to the prince Health, peace, and joy propined. C. Smart.

, may it do (you) good; -- a salutation used in well wishing, esp. among Germans, as in drinking healths.

The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. [Slang] Dickens.

A pompet. Pumpet ball (Print.), a ball for inking types; a pompet.

xed with gin, sugar, and spices. "Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite." Addison. "Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes." Dickens.

Rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless. Jer. Taylor. "Thy putid muse." Dr. H. More.

from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.

A small shallow cup or drinking vessel. [Scot.] [Written also quegh.]

A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

A drinking vessel. See Quaich.

some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it. Life hath quicksands, -- Life hath snares! Longfellow.