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To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result. His retiring foe Shrinks from the wound, and disappoints the blow. Addison.

To deal with, in eating or drinking. [Colloq.] We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us. Sir S. Baker.

Change of manner by drink; intoxication. Shak.

To sprinkle. [Obs.]

To scatter; to sprinkle. [Obs.] Odorous water was Disperpled lightly on my head and neck. Chapman.

To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge. [Poetic & Rare] [Written also dispunge.] O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me. Shak.

Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. Bacon.

Perturbation of mind; mental uneasiness. Sprinkled a little patience on the heat of his distemperature. Sir W. Scott.

s, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. Shak.

Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo. To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder. Macaulay.

To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] Johnson. Thackeray.

The practice of drinking drams.

of Drink.

The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking. In his hands he took the goblet, but a while the draught forbore. Trench.

One who drinks drams; a tippler. [Obs.] Tatler.

To become contracted; to shrink. "To draw into less room." Bacon.

To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat. Beau. & Fl. Dredging box. (a) Same as 2d Dredger. (b) (Gun.) A copper box with a perforated lid; -- used for sprinkling meal powder over shell fuses. Farrow.

A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." Trench.

Given to drink; drunken. [Obs.] Chaucer.