Word Meanings - SORBITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of drinking or sipping.

DRINKABLE
Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
SIPPLING
Sipping often. "Taken after a sippling sort." Holland.
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 .
DRINKABLENESS
State of being drinkable.
SIPPET
A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing. Your sweet sippets in widows' houses. Milton.
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
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.
SIPPER
One whi sips.
SIPPLE
To sip often.
OVERDRINK
To drink to excess.
OUTDRINK
To exceed in drinking.
BY-DRINKING
A drinking between meals.