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To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse. [Obs. or Dial.] Skelton.

To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey.

One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous. Throngs of knights and barons bold. Milton.

A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.] Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. Shak.

To drink excessively. See Booze.

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor. This is better than boozing in public houses. H. R. Haweis.

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders of these solitudes. Bentham. In the borders of death. Barrow.

formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are loose, and are generally curled or wrinkled; kale.

A drink, used in the East. See Boza.

alted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine.

An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court. [Obs.]

Bouche (see Bouche, 2); food and drink; provisions. [Obs.] [They] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting. B. Jonson .

To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.

A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout. The gentleman will, for his honor's sake, have one bout with you; he can not by the duello avoid it. Shak.

Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convival drinking.

A carouse; a drinking bout; a booze.

An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water. [Written also bosa, bozah, bouza.]