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t., may it do (you) good; -- a salutation used in well wishing, esp. among Germans, as in drinking healths.

The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. [Slang] Dickens.

mixed with gin, sugar, and spices. "Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite." Addison. "Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes." Dickens.

A small shallow cup or drinking vessel. [Scot.] [Written also quegh.]

A drinking vessel. See Quaich.

A drinking cup. [Written also romkin.] [Obs.] Halliwell.

A ruddy eruption upon the nose caused by drinking ardent spirits; a grog blossom.

A vessel filled, as for drinking. [R.]

A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.

A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel. [Obs.]

A large and tall glass, or drinking cup. [Obs.] J. Philips.

Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon. We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons [at Athens.] J. P. Mahaffy.

A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale. [U.S.]

A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk.

iquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. Tusser.

ake a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting. Drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish. Sir W. Scott.

To make sober. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Pope.

The act of drinking or sipping. [Obs.]

A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard. "A brutal sot." Granville. Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine. Roscommon.

A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal. [Colloq.]