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Made confident by drink. [Obs.]

Having the courage given by drink. Smollett.

Fit to be drunk; drinkable. "Water fresh and potable." Bacon. -- n.

The quality of being drinkable.

The act of drinking. Jer. Taylor.

A drinker. [R.] Southey.

Of or pertaining to drinking. Ld. Lytton.

Made confident by drink. [Obs.]

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

gh perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc. Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce. -- Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing.

A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes. Shak.

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.

To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair. A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars. Milton.

Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.

Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.

o dress or equip ostentatiously; - - often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink. In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank. Spenser.

One who dresses showily; a prinker. "A pranker or a dancer." Burton.

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

To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. [Obs.]

Dressing one's self for show; prinking. [Obs.]