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A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.

A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking. "Bumpers around and no heeltaps." Sheridan.

urposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus.

rand; noble. Both meet to hear and answer such high things. Shak. Plain living and high thinking are no more. Wordsworth.

Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. Shak.

A drinking cup having a foot and stem.

A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. "Horns of mead and ale." Mason.

Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest. God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Jas. iv. 6. She should be humble who would please. Prior. With…

To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.

The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

The act of linking together; enchaining. [R.] Goldsmith.

Want of thought, or of the power of thinking; thoughtlessness; unreasonableness. 'T is folly and incogitancy to argue anything, one way or the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate. Glanvill.

Not cogitative; not thinking; wanting the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitative being. Locke.

The quality of being incogitative; want of thought or of the power of thinking. Wollaston.

he power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

rate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.

To unite by locking or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening. My lady with her fingers interlocked. Tennyson.

A depression, or inward sinking of parts.

A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [Written also gingle.]