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To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink. I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed. Pepys.

Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.

A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

Iced; frozen; artificially cooled; as, wine frappé. -- n.

e critics have been very free in their censures. Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. Shelley.

A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.

as, the fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.

Producing fumes; fumous. "Drowned in fumy wine." H. Brooke.

In wine making, to add water and sugar to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced. -- Gal`li*za"tion (#), n.

A distemper in swine; garget. Mortimer.

Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.

A mixture composed of unfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines. [Written also jerupigia.]

ater, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger. -- Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger.

is given me once again to behold my friend. Rowe. Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine. Pope.

Turf; soil; ground; sod. Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil, and wine. Milton.

everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. Gen. i. 31. Good company, good wine, good welcome. Shak.

d, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.

The snout of a swine. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently. Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar. Milton. Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise. Roscommon. To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. Gay.

ket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.