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of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill. "A passion fond even to idolatry." Macaulay. "Her passion is to seek roses." Lady M. W. Montagu. We also are men of like passions with you. Acts xiv. 15. The nature…

nkard, an ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the liquor into equal portions. "Drink down to your peg." Longfellow. -- Peg tooth. See Fleam tooth under Fleam. -- Peg top, a boy's top which is spun by throwing it. -- Screw peg, a small screw without a head, for fastening soles.

The act of drinking excessively; a drinking bout. [Obs.]

Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.

Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.

One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.

A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health. Dead pledge. Etym: [A translation of LL. mortuum vadium.] (Law) A mortgage. See Mortgage. -- Living pledge. Etym: [A translation of LL. vivum vadium.] (Law) The conveyance of an estate to another for money borrowed, to be held by him unt…

s upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink. And plies him with redoubled strokes Dryden. He plies the duke at morning and at night. Shak.

Fit for drink. [Obs.] "Some those herbs which are not esculent, are . . . poculent." Bacon.

Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.

put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink. "The ingredients of our poisoned chalice." Shak.

A tall drinking cup.

ack. -- 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 wil…

Made confident by drink. [Obs.]

Having the courage given by drink. Smollett.

Fit to be drunk; drinkable. "Water fresh and potable." Bacon. -- n.

The quality of being drinkable.

The act of drinking. Jer. Taylor.

A drinker. [R.] Southey.

Of or pertaining to drinking. Ld. Lytton.