Word Meanings - WHISKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A shallow drinking bowl. Ray.
Related words: (words related to WHISKIN)
- 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.