Word Meanings - DRONKELEWE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to drink; drunken. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to DRONKELEWE)

• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• 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
• DRUNKENNESS
  1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I.
• 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 .
• DRUNKEN
  1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. 2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. 3. Pertaining
• DRINKABLENESS
  State of being drinkable.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• DRUNKENHEAD
  Drunkenness.
• DRUNKENSHIP; DRUNKSHIP
  The state of being drunk; drunkenness. Gower.
• DRINKING
  1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing. 2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors. 3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking
• DRINKLESS
  Destitute of drink. Chaucer.
• DRUNKENLY
  In a drunken manner. Shak.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• FORDRUNKEN
  Utterly drunk; very drunk. Chaucer.
• OUTDRINK
  To exceed in drinking.
• BY-DRINKING
  A drinking between meals.