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To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.

d, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.

The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another. [Obs.] Abp. Potter.

To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup. [Obs.] The lovely sorceress mixed, and to the prince Health, peace, and joy propined. C. Smart.

., may it do (you) good; -- a salutation used in well wishing, esp. among Germans, as in drinking healths.

ne who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak.

To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt. Dryden.

A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.

To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in wrinkles." Spectator.

Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.

The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. [Slang] Dickens.

An intoxicating Mexican drink. See Agave.

ixed with gin, sugar, and spices. "Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite." Addison. "Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes." Dickens.

To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit. Thou . . . didst contract and purse thy brow. Shak.

To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts. "Quaffed off the muscadel." Shak. They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. Milton.

One who quaffs, or drinks largely.

A small shallow cup or drinking vessel. [Scot.] [Written also quegh.]

n of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower. The atheist power shall quail, and confess his fears. I. Taylor. Stouter hearts than a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter. Longfellow.

A drinking vessel. See Quaich.

is sold; hence, a beer saloon of the German type below the street level, where, usually, drinks are served only at tables and simple food may also be had; -- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are essentially basement restaurants where liquors are served.