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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[AS.

druncen

, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of

drincan

, taken as active. See

Verb.

, and cf.

Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.

Drunken

men imagine everything turneth round.

Bacon.

Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.

Let the earth be

drunken

with our blood.

Shakespeare

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.

The

drunken

quarrels of a rake.

Swift.

Adj.

Drunkn. [participle of drink, but now used chiefly as an adjective, and often contracted to drunk.]

Intoxicated; inebriated with strong liquor.

Given to drunkenness; as a drunken butler.

Saturated with liquor or moisture; drenched.

Let the earth be drunken with our blood.

Proceeding from intoxication; done in a state of drunkenness; as a drunken quarrel.

A drunken slaughter.