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Made confident by drink. [Obs.]

Fit to drink; potable. [Obs.] Johnson.

A drink served after coffee at dinner, usually one of several liqueurs, or cordials, of different specific gravities poured so as to remain separate in layers; hence, such a drink of cordials served at any time.

fess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep. "[He] pretended to drink the waters." Macaulay.

ad, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.

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.

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

one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak.

A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.

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

An intoxicating Mexican drink. See Agave.

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

To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts. "Quaffed off the muscadel." Shak. They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. Milton.

One who quaffs, or drinks largely.

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

A drinking vessel. See Quaich.

is sold; hence, a beer saloon of the German type below the street level, where, usually, drinks are served only at tables and simple food may also be had; -- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are essentially basement restaurants where liquors are served.

, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

bs.] Who, requiring a remedy for his gout, received no other counsel than to refrain cold drink. Sir T. Browne.