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Governed by reason; being under influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men. By indubitable certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting. Bp.…

A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.

A drinking cup. [Written also romkin.] [Obs.] Halliwell.

A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom.

A vessel filled, as for drinking. [R.]

A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.

A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel. [Obs.]

A large and tall glass, or drinking cup. [Obs.] J. Philips.

State of sinking or bending; sagging.

A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.

Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon. We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons [at Athens.] J. P. Mahaffy.

A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale. [U.S.]

Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.

A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

t his father, and the daughter against her mother. Matt. x. 35. Every incident sets him thinking. Coleridge.

The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material. (b) pl.

ilding or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging. [Written also shoar.]

The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal. Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. Leigh Hunt.

The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.

uid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. Tusser.