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A drinking cup having a foot and stem.

A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. "Horns of mead and ale." Mason.

oughness; tumultuous movement. [Archaic] Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman.

A kind of strong drink formerly used. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Venous hum. See under Venous.

A diluent drink or medicine. [Obs.]

sical, or resembling dropsy. Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst. Tillotson.

A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass. Ice-skater = one who skates on ice wearing a…

To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.

To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow. Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow. Woty.

a. -- Indian turnip (Bot.), an American plant of the genus Arisæma. A. triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin. -- Indian wheat, maize or Indian corn. -- Indian yellow. (a) An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamb…

Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. The inebriating effect of popular applause. Macaulay.

To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle. Cleveland.

which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle.

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] Chapman.

, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drinks. Milton.

erate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.

rlarded with many particular laws of their own. Sir M. Hale. They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy. J. Philips.

To mark or imprint with lines. A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow. Marlowe.

To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. With new wine inoxicated both. Milton.