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To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle. His habit or flustering himself daily with claret. Macaulay.

a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.

One who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.

To make red with drinking. [Obs.] This grand liquior that hath gilded them. Shak.

A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share. [Obs.]

A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner.

A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle. We love not loaded boards and goblets crowned. Denham.

A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle. Chaucer. Bitter gourd, colocynth.

A connoisseur in eating and drinking; an epicure.

A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.

A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking. "Bumpers around and no heeltaps." Sheridan.

Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. Shak.

A drinking cup having a foot and stem.

A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. "Horns of mead and ale." Mason.

To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.

perate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.

A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A large drinking vessel; also, its contents. [Colloq. Eng.] Forby.

A large ornamental drinking vessel having two or more handles, intended to pass from hand to hand, as at a banquet.

affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: [L.], madness from drinking; delirium tremens.