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Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean. Meager and lank with fasting grown. Swift. Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain Barrow.

t of; in a manner similar to; as, do not act like him. He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. Job xii. 25.

as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.

Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak. Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. Chaucer.

Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. Byron.

nus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

serve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial. Shak.

A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything. Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. Shak.

gument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill. The lord archbishop . . . made a long oration. Bacon.

Drunken revelry; a carouse. B. Jonson. Tennyson.

A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies

Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken. [Obs.] Holland.

A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

Shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium).

lking, from one side to the other; to stagger. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man. Ps. cvii. 27. He, with heavy fumes oppressed, Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest. Pope. The wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves. Macualay.

Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.

A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.

A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial. Drunkeness that the horrible sepulture of man's reason. Chaucer.

The unkempt and ragged part of the community. [Colloq. or Slang.] R. Browning.

A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called skids) at intervals of about five feet.