Part 3505

<blockquote>I will make mine arrows <b>drunk</b> with blood. <i> Deut. xxxii. 42.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Drunk</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drunk</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A drunken condition; a spree.</def> <mark>[Slang]</mark>

<h1>Drunkard</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drunk"ard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Drunk</ets> + <ets>-ard</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>drunkard</b> and glutton shall come to poverty. <i> Prov. xxiii. 21.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Drunken</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drunk"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>druncen</ets>, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of <ets>drincan</ets>, taken as active. See <er>Drink</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>, and cf. <er>Drunk</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.</def>

<blockquote><b>Drunken</b> men imagine everything turneth round. <i> Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.</def>

<blockquote>Let the earth be <b>drunken</b> with our blood. <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>drunken</b> quarrels of a rake. <i> Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Drunkenhead</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drunk"en*head</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Drunkenness.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Drunkenly</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drunk"en*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a drunken manner.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Drunkenness</h1> <Xpage=458>

<hw>Drunk"en*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.</def>

<blockquote>The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate <b>drunkenness</b> by bringing a drunken man into their company. <i>I. Watts.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.</def>

<blockquote>Passion is the <b>drunkenness</b> of the mind. <i> South.</i></blockquote>

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

<i>Burke.</i>

<h1>Drunkenship, Drunkship</h1> <Xpage=458>