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Word Meanings - WHISKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shallow drinking bowl. Ray.

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  • 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 .
  • SHALLOW-BRAINED
    Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
  • SHALLOW-WAISTED
    Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
  • SHALLOW
    schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
  • DRINKABLENESS
    State of being drinkable.
  • SHALLOW-PATED
    Shallow-brained.
  • SHALLOWNESS
    Quality or state of being shallow.
  • 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
  • SHALLOW-HEARTED
    Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson.
  • DRINKLESS
    Destitute of drink. Chaucer.
  • SHALLOWLY
    In a shallow manner.
  • SHALLOW-BODIED
    Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.
  • OVERDRINK
    To drink to excess.
  • DISHALLOW
    To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.
  • OUTDRINK
    To exceed in drinking.
  • BY-DRINKING
    A drinking between meals.

 

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