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DRUNK a. 3 definitions

Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; - - never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay.

One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

DRUNKEN a. 3 definitions

Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon.

Drunkenness. [Obs.]

In a drunken manner. [R.] Shak.

DRUNKENNESS n. 2 definitions

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts.

DRUNKENSHIP; DRUNKSHIP n.

The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.

Utterly drunk; very drunk. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FORERUN v. 2 definitions

earnest of something to follow; to introduce as a harbinger; to announce. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings. Shak.

FORERUNNER n. 3 definitions

approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in for us entered, even Jesus. Heb. vi. 20. My elder brothers, my forerunners, came. Dryden.

A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.

Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.

GERUND n. 2 definitions

A kind of verbal noun, having only the four oblique cases of the singular number, and governing cases like a participle.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a gerund; as, a gerundial use.

GERUNDIVE a. 2 definitions

Pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial. -- n. (Lat. Gram.)

GERUNDIVELY adv.

In the manner of a gerund; as, or in place of, a gerund.

A groundling (fish). [Prov. Eng.]

Grounsel. [Obs.]

Narrow and unintelligent conventionalism. -- Grun"dy*ist, n.

GRUNT v. 3 definitions

e, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Shak. Grunting ox (Zoöl.), the yak.