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Word Meanings - BRIDE-ALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rustic wedding feast; a bridal. See Ale. The man that 's bid to bride-ale, if he ha' cake, And drink enough, he need not fear his stake. B. Jonson.

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  • DRINKABLE
    Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
  • RUSTICAL
    Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
  • DRINK
    p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
  • RUSTICATE
    To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
  • FEAST
    festival, F. fĂȘte, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
  • BRIDEGROOM
    A man newly married, or just about to be married. (more info) br, D. bruidegom, bruigom, OHG. pr, MHG. briutegome, G. brÀutigam); AS. br bride + guma man, akin to Goth. guma, Icel. gumi, OHG. gomo, L. homo; the insertion of r being caused
  • DRINKER
    One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
  • RUSTICITY
    The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
  • ENOUGH
    Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin
  • DRINKABLENESS
    State of being drinkable.
  • STAKEHOLDER
    The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
  • RUSTICLY
    In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.
  • RUSTICATED
    resembling rustic work. See Rustic work , under Rustic.
  • BRIDAL
    Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
  • BRIDESMAN
    A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the "best man." Sir W. Scott.
  • WEDDAHS
    See VEDDAHS
  • WEDDING
    Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow. Note: Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names.
  • BRIDE
    OFries. breid, OSax. br, D. bruid, OHG. pr, br, G. braut, Icel. br, Sw. & Dan. brud, Goth. br33s; cf. Armor. pried spouse, W. priawd a 1. A woman newly married, or about to be married. Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer
  • RUSTIC
    1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. Milton. And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray. She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth. 2. Rude; awkward; rough;
  • FEASTER
    1. One who fares deliciously. 2. One who entertains magnificently. Johnson.
  • OVERDRINK
    To drink to excess.
  • MISTAKEN
    1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
  • MISTAKER
    One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
  • MISTAKE
    1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
  • PAINSTAKER
    One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.
  • ALESTAKE
    A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." Chaucer.
  • OUTFEAST
    To exceed in feasting.

 

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