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ter grace has been said. The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. Hing. -- Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was…

Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey.

Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black. Grizzled hair flowing in elf locks. Sir W. Scott.

nce, any intoxicating liquor. Grog blossom, a redness on the nose or face of persons who drink ardent spirits to excess. [Collog.]

the seeds of Paullinia sorbilis, a woody climber of Brazil, used in making an astringent drink, and also in the cure of headache.

The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

Besprinkled with drops, or droplike spots. Bailey.

Charged or sprinkled with drops.

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.

An immoderate drinker.

Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled. But on both did haggish age steal on. Shak.

A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.

, one charged with the enforcement of the sanitary laws of a port or other place. -- To drink a health. See under Drink.

A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking. "Bumpers around and no heeltaps." Sheridan.

A species of agate, sprinkled with spots of red jasper.

essed by two nouns connected by and, instead of by a noun and limiting adjective; as, we drink from cups and gold, for golden cups.

Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. Shak.

adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. Dickens.

A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee. [Scot.]

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. Shak.