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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.]

Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.

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

The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal. Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise. Leigh Hunt.

The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.

quid 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.

ke 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.]

A large drinking cup. Greene. Standard bearer, an officer of an army, company, or troop, who bears a standard; -- commonly called color sergeantor color bearer; hence, the leader of any organization; as, the standard bearer of a political party.

d of mock Latin term intended to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers. Nares. Drinking super nagulum [supernaculum], a device of drinking, new come out of France, which is, after a man hath turned up the bottom of the cup, to drop it on his nail and make a pearl with that is left; which if it slide, and he c…