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A kind of strong drink formerly used. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Venous hum. See under Venous.

A diluent drink or medicine. [Obs.]

psical, or resembling dropsy. Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst. Tillotson.

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.

Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. The inebriating effect of popular applause. Macaulay.

To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle. Cleveland.

s which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food. Boyle.

t, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drinks. Milton.

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

erlarded with many particular laws of their own. Sir M. Hale. They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy. J. Philips.

To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. With new wine inoxicated both. Milton.

f palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber.

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

A large drinking vessel; also, its contents. [Colloq. Eng.] Forby.

A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs; esp. (Med.),

Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc. [Slang, U. S.]

To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something. The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily as they run along the shore. Sir K. Digby.

ly attacking the membrane that lines the inside of the mouth and nostrils of animals that drink at pools where it lives.

A large ornamental drinking vessel having two or more handles, intended to pass from hand to hand, as at a banquet.

A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.