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not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets eat. Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray.

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

Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.

der Wandering. -- Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light- ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage. -- Floating liver. (Med.) See Wandering liver, under Wandering. -- Floating pier, a landing stage or pier w…

Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.

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

Of or pertaining to Germany. German Baptists. See Dunker. -- German bit, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical pod and a scew point. -- German carp (Zoöl.), the crucian carp. -- German millet (Bot.), a kind of millet (Setaria Italica, var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food. -- German paste, a prepared…

A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

the sky. Pope. Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. Gray. The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. E. Everett.

ownish person; a rustic. Milton. Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. Shak.

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

nk; habitually given to drink; stupefied. Thus spake Peter, as a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said. Udall.

Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.

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

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.

A drunken, dissolute fellow. [Ireland] S. C. Hall.

See Junket.[Obs.] Spenser.

One of the sunken panels in such a ceiling.