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The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

One who skates at a rink. [Colloq.]

Skating in a rink. [Colloq.]

To sprinkle over; to scatter over. The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden.

One who, or that which, besprinkles.

The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.

ace, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant.

A drinking between meals. [Obs.]

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalites or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. The houscrinkled to and fro. Chaucer. Her face all bowsy, Comely crinkled, Wondrously wrinkled. Skelton. The flames through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs.…

Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. "The crinkled lightning." Lowell.

Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.

er purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. Luke xvii. 8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. Job xxi. 20. Drink of the cup that can not cloy. Keble.…

Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.

State of being drinkable.

One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth (Zoöl.), a large British moth (Odonestis potatoria).

The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

Destitute of drink. Chaucer.

To exceed in drinking.

To drink to excess.

To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. "And prink their hair with daisies." Cowper.