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Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.

, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth (Zoöl.), a large British moth (Odonestis potatoria).

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

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

Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.

ression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation. Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. Eph. v. 18. Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. Milton.

A drunkard. [Colloq.] Baxter.

To make drunk. [Obs.] Wood.

To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle. [Obs.] Burton.

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

- Good graces, favor; friendship. -- Grace cup. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. Hing. -- Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we…

A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.

Half drunk. [Slang: used only predicatively.] Spectator.

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

To make drunk; to intoxicate. The cups That cheer but not inebriate. Cowper.

Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.

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

To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. With new wine inoxicated both. Milton.

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.