Word Meanings - HOBNOB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. Shak. 2. At random; hit or miss. Holinshed.

Related words: (words related to HOBNOB)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• 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
• 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 .
• RECIPROCALLY
  In the manner of reciprocals. Reciprocally proportional (Arith. & Alg.), proportional, as two variable quantities, so that the one shall have a constant ratio to the reciprocal of the other. (more info) 1. In a reciprocal manner; so that
• RANDOMLY
  In a random manner.
• DRINKABLENESS
  State of being drinkable.
• RECIPROCAL
  Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action. (more info) 1. Recurring in vicissitude; alternate. 2. Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due
• RECIPROCALNESS
  The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.
• FAMILIARITY
  1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another
• FAMILIARIZATION
  The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.
• 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
• FAMILIARIZE
  1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self
• FAMILIAR
  1. Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron. 2. Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures. 3. Characterized by, or exhibiting, the
• RANDOM
  The direction of a rake-vein. Raymond. (more info) a randon, de randon, violently, suddenly, rapidly, prob. of German origin; cf. G. rand edge, border, OHG. rant shield, edge of a shield, 1. Force; violence. For courageously the two kings newly
• FAMILIARNESS
  Familiarity.
• INVITATION
  1. The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend. 2. A document written or printed, or spoken words, 3. Allurement; enticement. She gives the leer
• DRINKLESS
  Destitute of drink. Chaucer.
• FAMILIARY
  Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. Milton.
• RECIPROCALITY
  The quality or condition of being reciprocal; reciprocalness.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• OUTDRINK
  To exceed in drinking.