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     #956.  Fasting. —­ N. fasting; xerophagy[obs3]; famishment, starvation.
     fast, jour maigre[Fr]; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima[obs3];
Ramadan, Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet; lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe maigre[Fr], short commons, Barmecide feast[obs3]; short rations. 
     V. fast, starve, clem|, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke
Humphrey[obs3]; make two bites of a cherry. 
     Adj. lenten, quadragesimal[obs3]; unfed[obs3]; starved &c.v.; half-
starved; fasting &c. v.; hungry &c. 865.

     #957.  Gluttony. —­ N. gluttony; greed, avarice; greediness &c. adj.;
voracity.
     epicurism; good living, high living; edacity[obs3], gulosity[obs3],
crapulence[obs3]; guttling[obs3], guzzling; pantophagy[obs3].
     good cheer, blow out; feast &c. (food) 298; gastronomy, batterie de
cuisine[Fr].
     epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god,
Apicius[obs3], gastronome; gourmet &c. 954a, 868.
     v. gormandize, gorge; overgorge[obs3], overeat oneself; engorge, eat
one’s fill, cram, stuff; guttle[obs3], guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp &c. (swallow food) 298; raven, eat out of house and home.
     have the stomach of an ostrich; play a good knife and fork &c.
(appetite) 865.
     pamper. 
     Adj. gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing &c.v.; edacious[obs3],
omnivorous, crapulent[obs3], swinish.
     avaricious &c. 819; selfish &c. 918.
     pampered; overfed, overgorged[obs3]. 
     Phr. jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit [Lat][Horace].

     #958.  Sobriety. —­ N. sobriety; teetotalism.
     temperance &c. 953.
     water-drinker; hydropot|!; prohibitionist; teetotaler, teetotalist;
abstainer, Good Templar, band of hope. 
     V. take the pledge. 
     Adj. sober, sober as a judge.

     #959.  Drunkenness. —­ N. drunkenness &c. adj.; intemperance; drinking
&c. v.; inebriety[obs3], inebriation; ebriety[obs3], ebriosity[obs3]; insobriety; intoxication; temulency[obs3], bibacity[obs3], wine bibbing; comtation[obs3], potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender* [U.S.].
     oinomania[obs3], dipsomania; delirium tremens; alcohol, alcoholism;
mania a potu[Fr].
     drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin*, grog, port wine; punch, punch
bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer &c. (beverage) 298; aguardiente[obs3]; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash [U.S.]; chain lightning*, champagne, cocktail; gin, ginsling[obs3]; highball [U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps [U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.], uisquebaugh[Irish], usquebaugh, whisky, xeres[obs3].
     drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber[obs3], wine-bibber, lush; hard
drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker*, sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal[obs3], Bacchante[obs3];