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Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

riately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

ng fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined. -- Bologna vial, a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.

Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. A boon companion, loving his bottle. Arbuthnot.

Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the high grounds." Stoddard.

Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell.

ively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery. Be bright and jovial among your guests. Shak.

Jovial and blustering; dashing. [Slang] "Bless thee, bully doctor." Shak.

Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed between tendons and bony prominences.

A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. The swains were preparing for a carousal. Sterne.

To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. [Archaic] Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young.

A vial, cruet, or other small vessel, used to contain condiments at the table; as, a set of casters.

A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.

ering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.

hich our author would contend for. Locke. Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial. Dr. H. More.

pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial. [Obs.] "A convival dish." Sir T. Browne.