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going to the seashore in summer. Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify temperance in drinking. Jer. Taylor. The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of Europe. Baker.

To exceed in drinking.

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

Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.

One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.

A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health. Dead pledge. Etym: [A translation of LL. mortuum vadium.] (Law) A mortgage. See Mortgage. -- Living pledge. Etym: [A translation of LL. vivum vadium.] (Law) The conveyance of an estate to another for money borrowed, to be held by him unt…

Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.

A tall drinking cup.

ck. -- Pot cheese, cottage cheese. See under Cottage. -- Pot companion, a companion in drinking. -- Pot hanger, a pothook. -- Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. -- Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will…

The act of drinking. Jer. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to drinking. Ld. Lytton.

Dressing one's self for show; prinking. [Obs.]

The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another. [Obs.] Abp. Potter.

To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup. [Obs.] The lovely sorceress mixed, and to the prince Health, peace, and joy propined. C. Smart.

., 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.

ixed 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 starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.