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A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies

Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.] Holland.

walking, from one side to the other; to stagger. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man. Ps. cvii. 27. He, with heavy fumes oppressed, Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest. Pope. The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves. Macualay.

A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial. Drunkeness that the horrible sepulture of man's reason. Chaucer.

leep away precious time. -- To sleep off, to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.

Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology! Swift.

Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion. [Archaic] "With drunken spilth of wine." Shak. Choicest cates, and the flagon's best spilth. R. Browning.

To kick or toss up the heels. The miller spurned at a stone. Chaucer. The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. Gay.

re about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [R.] "Their temulency." Jer. Taylor.

Intoxicated; drunken. [R.]

ituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness. Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. Macaulay.

Against the churches. Shak. All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.

Drunkennes. [Obs.]

Given to wine; drunken; intemperate. [Obs.] Chaucer.