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Drunk"en (?), a. [AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk.] 1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round.

Bacon.

2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.

Let the earth be drunken with our blood.

Shak.

3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.

The drunken quarrels of a rake.

Swift.

Drunk"en*head (?), n. Drunkenness. [Obs.]

Drunk"en*ly, adv. In a drunken manner. [R.] Shak.

Drunk"en*ness, n. 1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.

The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company.

I. Watts.

2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

South.

Syn. -- Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. "This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success." Burke.

{ Drunk"en*ship, Drunk"ship, } n. The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.

Dru*pa"ceous (?), a. [Cf. F. drupacé.] (Bot.) Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.

Drup"al (?), a. (Bot.) Drupaceous.

Drupe (?), n. [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr. Gr. &?;.] (Bot.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.

{ Drup"el (?), Drupe"let (?), } n. [Dim. of Drupe.] (Bot.) A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

Druse (?), n. [Cf. G. druse bonny, crystallized piece of ore, Bohem. druza. Cf. Dross.] (Min.) A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.

Druse (?), n. One of a people and religious sect dwelling chiefly in the Lebanon mountains of Syria.

The Druses separated from the Mohammedan Arabs in the 9th century. Their characteristic dogma is the unity of God.

Am. Cyc.

{ Dru"sy (?), Drused (?), } a. (Min.) Covered with a large number of minute crystals.