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A bibcock.

To drink; to tipple. [Obs.] This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. Chaucer.

Addicted to drinking.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.

Having to hydrogen atoms which can be replaced by positive or basic atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of acids. See Dibasic.

A bibcock. See Bib, n., 3.

inking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

Idle talk; babble. Shak.

Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast tp support the trestletrees.

A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle. Knight.

A small decorative object without practical utility.

See Bebeerine.

Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling.

d New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.

A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and bibbeler.]

Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.

The quality of being biblical; a biblical subject. [R.]

According to the Bible.

Learning or literature relating to the Bible. [R.]

One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures.