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A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. "That devil Glendower." "The devil drunkenness." Shak. Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil John vi. 70.

on of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. Luke xvii. 8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. Job xxi. 20. Drink of the cup that can not cloy. Keble.

Given to drink; drunken. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; - - never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay.

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.

Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.

. . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.

Not discreet; wanting in discretion. So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Shak.

runk; habitually given to drink; stupefied. Thus spake Peter, as a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said. Udall.

Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.

Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.

The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness. [R.]

The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.

A drunken, dissolute fellow. [Ireland] S. C. Hall.

hat of; in a manner similar to; as, do not act like him. He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. Job xii. 25.

e, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.

Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak. Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. Chaucer.

Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. Byron.

A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything. Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. Shak.

Drunken revelry; a carouse. B. Jonson. Tennyson.