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se who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. Macaulay.

Intoxicated; inebriated; tipsy; drunk. [R.] Dryden.

One who keeps a tippling-house. [Obs.] Latimer.

m engraving in lines. The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect. Milman.

A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.

To drink; to sip; to tipple. He was constantly bibbing. Locke.

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

One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.

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

To drink greedily or immoderately, esp. alcoholic liquor; to tipple. [Written also bouse, and boose.] Landor. This is better than boozing in public houses. H. R. Haweis.

One who drinks drams; a tippler. [Obs.] Tatler.

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

hand; hence, characteristic mark. Though on his brow were graven lines austere. Byron. He tipples palmistry, and dines On all her fortune-telling lines. Cleveland.

A tippler. [R.] Shak.

on etching ground, or on the naked copper, the effect after biting being very similar to stippled lines.

To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] It is less labor to plow than to pot it. Feltham.

To tipple to stupidity. [R.] Goldsmith.

The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. [Obs.]

painting, work in, or a work done chiefly in, washes, as distinguished from that done in stipple, in body color, etc.

A tippler; one who drinks whets. [Obs.] Steele.