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D — Dreggy to Dyspnœa (Part 3 of 16)

Drill, n.

    1. Borer, boring-tool.
    2. Military training, exercise in tactics.
    3. Training, discipline.
    4. Furrow, channel, trench (for planting).
    5. Planting-machine.

Drill, v. a.

    1. Pierce, perforate, bore.
    2. Exercise in tactics, train in martial exercises.
    3. Instruct, exercise, teach, train

Drink, v. n.

    1. Take a drink, quench one’s thirst.
    2. Tipple, tope, be a drunkard, be a toper, be intemperate (in the use of spirituous liquors), be of intemperate habits, take a drop too much.
    3. Carouse, revel, indulge in a drinking-bout.

Drink, v. a.

    1. Swallow, quaff.
    2. Imbibe, absorb, swallow up, suck in.

Drink, n. Beverage, potion.

Drinkable, a. Potable, that may be drunk, fit to drink, suitable for drinking.

Drinking, n. Tippling, toping, intemperate habits.

Drinking-bout, n. Carouse, carousal, revel, revelry, jollification, bacchanals, saturnalia, debauch, compotation, wassail, orgies, spree (colloq.).