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On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a following infinitive. My heart is ready to crack. Shak.

the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink. Shak.

s.] Who, requiring a remedy for his gout, received no other counsel than to refrain cold drink. Sir T. Browne.

which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation; especially, an article of food or drink.

To chill; to cool. [Obs.] Refreyded by sickness . . . or by cold drinks. Chaucer.

Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back. Desire of wine and all delicious drinks, . . . Thou couldst repress. Milton.

To sprinkle; to scatter. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of sprinkling or scattering. [Obs.]

rom notice. To Una back he cast him to retire. Spenser. The mind contracts herself, and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire. Sir J. Davies.

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. But this got by casting pearl to hogs, That bawl for freedom in their senseless mood, And still revolt when trith would set them free. Milton. HIs clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time. J.…

sure. Called also pith paper. -- Rice troupial (Zoöl.), the bobolink. -- Rice water, a drink for invalids made by boiling a small quantity of rice in water. -- Rice-water discharge (Med.), a liquid, resembling rice water in appearance, which is vomited, and discharged from the bowels, in cholera. -- Rice weevil (Zo…

unding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high- flavored; as, a rich dish; rich cream or soup; rich pastry; rich wine or fruit. Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India. Bak…

To wrinkle. "With a forehead ridged." Cowper.

If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is . . . right, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." Locke.

A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.

To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers. [Obs.] Pope. "Riveled parchments." Walpole.

han a rivulet or brook. Transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow. Macaulay.

A drinking cup. [Written also romkin.] [Obs.] Halliwell.

A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom.