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To try tasting, as food or drink. [Obs.]

Wanting drink; thirsty.

A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.

, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called balderdash. Taylor (Drink and Welcome).

A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches.

A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. Brown bastard is your only drink. Shak.

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

f a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy. The beastly vice of drinking to excess. Swift.

constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.

Earlier; sooner than; until then. When the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before. Shak.

Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

To drink to excess; to revel. [Obs.]

To drink; to sip; to tipple. He was constantly bibbing. Locke.

To drink; to tipple. [Obs.] This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. Chaucer.

Addicted to drinking.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and bibbeler.]

Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.