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The act of drinking excessively; a drinking bout. [Obs.]

A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny. Carlyle

A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.

Maine; -- a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.

The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.

cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.

A voluntary engagement, or a paper containing it; a promise. Bp. Burnet.

A salt of polytungstic acid.

Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.

Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity.

The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. Blackstone.

A draught. "Potations pottle deep." Shak.

The sweet potato (see below). Potato beetle, Potato bug. (Zoöl.)

A drinker. [R.] Southey.

Of or pertaining to drinking. Ld. Lytton.

possesses great power or sway; a prince, sovereign, or monarch. The blessed and only potentate. 1 Tim. vi. 15. Cherub and seraph, potentates and thrones. Milton.

A chief ruler; a potentate. [Obs.] Wyclif. "An irous potestate." Chaucer.

Authoritative. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Illinois; -- a nickname.

Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. Clarendon.