broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench,
swill*; nip, sip, sup, gulp.
     wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn,
stingo[obs3], heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus[obs3], cup, bishop, wassail; gin &c. (intoxicating liquor) 959; coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer[obs3]; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep [U.S.]; near beer, 3.2 beer, non-alcoholic beverage.
     eating house &c. 189.
     [person who eats] diner; hippophage; glutton &c. 957. 
     V. eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to;
despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in*; lick, pick, peck; gormandize &c. 957; bite, champ, munch, cranch[obs3], craunch[obs3], crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.
     live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse,
graze, crop, regale; carouse &c. (make merry) 840; eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet.
     break bread, break one’s fast; breakfast, lunch, dine, take tea, sup.
     drink in, drink up, drink one’s fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up;
lap; swig; swill*, chugalug[slang], tipple &c. (be drunken) 959; empty one’s glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one’s glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one’s whistle.
     purvey &c. 637. 
     Adj. eatable, edible, esculent[obs3], comestible, alimentary; cereal,
cibarious[obs3]; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric; succulent; potable, potulent|; bibulous.
     omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous[obs3],
graminivorous, phytivorous[obs3]; ichthyivorous[obs3]; omophagic[obs3], omophagous[obs3]; pantophagous[obs3], phytophagous[obs3], xylophagous
     Phr[Biol]. “across the walnuts and the wine” [Tennyson]; “blessed
hour of our dinners!” [O.  Meredith]; “now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!” [Macbeth]; “who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?” [Richard II]

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     #299.  Excretion —­ N. excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation,
exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation[Med], ecchymosis[Med]; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap[vulg.]; bloody flux; cacation[obs3]; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation[obs3], exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology[Med].
     saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism[obs3], salivation, catarrh;
diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta[Biol], sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae &c. (uncleanness) 653[Lat].
     hemorrhage, bleeding; outpouring &c. (egress) 295. 
     V. excrete &c. (eject) 297; emanate &c. (come out) 295.