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ep away precious time. -- To sleep off, to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.

To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. [U. S.]

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.

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

Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed. The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep. Byron.

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

Intoxicated; drunken. [R.]

uous 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.

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim. [Obs.] "Out of the trunked stock." Spenser.

See Unked. [Prov. Eng.]

ainst the churches. Shak. All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.

Drunkennes. [Obs.]

Given to wine; drunken; intemperate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints.

Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.

A young fellow; a younker. [Obs. or Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.