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Slippery. [Obs.] To a drunk man the way is slidder. Chaucer.

Fit to be drunk or sipped. [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.

Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken. How ignorant are sottish pretenders to astrology! Swift.

Anything spilt, or freely poured out; slop; effusion. [Archaic] "With drunken spilth of wine." Shak. Choicest cates, and the flagon's best spilth. R. Browning.

To kick or toss up the heels. The miller spurned at a stone. Chaucer. The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. Gay.

re about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.

of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.

Elevated by joy; elate. [Poetic] Their hearts were jocund and sublime, Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine. Milton.

r pertaining to swine; befitting swine; like swine; hoggish; gross; beasty; as, a swinish drunkard or sot. "Swinish gluttony." Milton. -- Swin"ish*ly, adv. -- Swin"ish*ness, n.

, a tea service. -- Tea table, a table on which tea furniture is set, or at which tea is drunk. -- Tea taster, one who tests or ascertains the quality of tea by tasting. -- Tea tree (Bot.), the tea plant of China. See Tea plant, above. -- Tea urn, a vessel generally in the form of an urn or vase, for supplying hot…

Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [R.] "Their temulency." Jer. Taylor.

Intoxicated; drunken. [R.]

ituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness. Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. Macaulay.

Intoxicated; inebriated; tipsy; drunk. [R.] Dryden.

A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises.

nce of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.

To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.