Drinking
['drɪŋkɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drink
(n.) The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
(n.) The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
(n.) An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
Checker: Phelps
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tippling, toping, intemperate habits.
Edited by Babbage
Unserious Contents or Definition
To be given to dram-drinking in your dreams, omens ill-natured rivalry and contention for small possession. To think you have quit dram-drinking, or find that others have done so, shows that you will rise above present estate and rejoice in prosperity.
For a woman to dream of hilarious drinking, denotes that she is engaging in affairs which may work to her discredit, though she may now find much pleasure in the same. If she dreams that she fails to drink clear water, though she uses her best efforts to do so, she will fail to enjoy some pleasure that is insinuatingly offered her. See Water.
Editor: Lorna
Examples
- He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I have the pleasure of drinking his good health. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Thou hast been drinking more than enough, friar, said the woodsman, and, I fear, prating more than enough too. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That part is just as true as Pilar's old women drinking the blood down at the slaughterhouse. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I will leave your house without eating or drinking, or setting foot in it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He himself was hindered from drinking the water. Plato. The Republic.
- Bust me if I don't think he'd been a drinking! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I did the same; and if I had turned myself upside down before drinking, the wine could not have gone more direct to my head. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The conservation of the forest means the conservation of our waterways, whether these be used for transportation or as sources of drinking water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Alvanly, shall I have the pleasure of drinking wine with you? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Now which is the purer satisfaction--that of eating and drinking, or that of knowledge? Plato. The Republic.
- You know I have been drinking. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The last of the three now said his say, as he put down his empty drinking vessel and smacked his lips. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Seated at table in the act of drinking, Mr Dorrit still saw him through his wine-glass, regarding him with a cold and ghostly eye. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But to avoid taxation it must be rendered unfit for drinking by the addition of such unpalatable substances as wood alcohol, pyridin, benzola, sulphuric ether or animal oil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Sean