devotee to Bacchus[obs3]; bum* [U.S.], guzzler, tavern haunter. 
     V. get drunk, be drunk &c. adj.; see double; take a drop too much,
take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse[Fr], guzzle, swill*, soak*, sot, bum* [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush*, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus[obs3]; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one’s swill*, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.
     liquor, liquor up; wet one’s whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle,
pass the bottle; toss off &c. (drink up) 2198; go to the alehouse, go to the public house.
     make one drunk &c. adj.; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle[obs3],
get into one’s head. 
     Adj. drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious[obs3], inebriate,
inebriated; in one’s cups; in a state of intoxication &c.n.; temulent[obs3], temulentive[obs3]; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou[obs3], fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant[obs3], glorious; potulent|; squiffy*[obs3]; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed*, tight, primed, corned, raddled[obs3], sewed up*, lushy*[obs3], nappy[obs3], muddled, muzzy[obs3], obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous[obs3], dead drunk.
       woozy[1][slightly drunk], buzzed, flush, flushed.
     inter pocula[obs3]; in liquor, the worse for liquor; having had a drop
too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind; under the table.
     drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a
fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David’s sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow.
     drunken, bibacious[obs3], sottish; given to drink, addicted to drink,
addicted to the bottle; toping &c.v. 
     Phr. nunc est bibendum[Lat]; “Bacchus ever fair and young” [Dryden];
“drink down all unkindness” [Merry Wives]; “O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains” [Othello].

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     #960.  Purity. —­ N. purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence,
chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity[obs3], pucelage[obs3], virginity.
     vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude. 
     Adj. pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus
puerisque[Lat]; simon-pure; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.
     virgin, unsullied; cherry [coll.]. 
     Phr. “as chaste as unsunn’d snow” [Cymbeline]; “a soul as white as
heaven” [Beaumonth & Fl.]; “’tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity” [Milton]; “to the pure all things are pure” [Shelley].