v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besprinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Besprinkling ] To sprinkle over; to scatter over. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bed besprinkles, and bedews the ground. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, besprinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dan. brink edge, verge; akin to Sw. brink declivity, hill, Icel. brekka; cf. LG. brink a grassy hill, W. bryn hill, bryncyn hillock. ] The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge, as of a river or pit; a verge; a border; as, the brink of a chasm. Also Fig. “The brink of vice.” Bp. Porteus. “The brink of ruin.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ brink + -manship. (1956). ] the policy or practise of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety), in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome; -- used especially of diplomatic maneuvers in crisis situations, and originally applied to the policies of John Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A drinking between meals. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Crinkling ] [ A dim., fr. the root of cringe; akin to D. krinkelen to wind or twist. Cf. Cringle, Cringe. ] To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl. [ 1913 Webster ]

The house&unr_;s crinkled to and fro. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her face all bowsy,
Comely crinkled,
Wondrously wrinkled. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The flames through all the casements pushing forth,
Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To turn or wind; to run in and out in many short bends or turns; to curl; to run in waves; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved. [ 1913 Webster ]

The green wheat crinkles like a lake. L. T. Trowbridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

And all the rooms
Were full of crinkling silks. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. “The crinkled lightning.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a North American herb (Dentaria diphylla) with pungent scaly or toothed roots; -- called also toothwort.
Syn. -- pepper root, toothwort, Cardamine diphylla, Dentaria diphylla. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. Drank formerly Drunk & p. p. Drunk, Drunken p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical. ] [ AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown. ] 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. Luke xvii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. Job xxi. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drink of the cup that can not cloy. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the &unr_;se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they drank, and were merry with him. Gem. xliii. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

I drink to the general joy of the whole table,
And to our dear friend Banquo. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. [ 1913 Webster ]

There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss,
There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. [ 1913 Webster ]

And let the purple violets drink the stream. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. [ 1913 Webster ]

To drink the cooler air, Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
Of that tongue's utterance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To smoke, as tobacco. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And some men now live ninety years and past,
Who never drank to tobacco first nor last. Taylor (1630.) [ 1913 Webster ]

To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. Shak. --
To drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. “Song was the form of literature which he [ Burns ] had drunk in from his cradle.” J. C. Shairp. --
To drink off or
To drink up, to drink completely, especially at one draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial. --
To drink the health of, or
To drink to the health of, to drink while expressing good wishes for the health or welfare of. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me some drink, Titinius. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drink money, or
Drink penny, an allowance, or perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity. --
Drink offering (Script.), an offering of wine, etc., in the Jewish religious service. --
In drink, drunk. “The poor monster's in drink.” Shak. --
Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; esp., liquor containing a large proportion of alcohol. “ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.” Prov. xx. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being drinkable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drinker moth (Zool.), a large British moth (Odonestis potatoria). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking glass, drinking house, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drinking horn, a drinking vessel made of a horn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of drink. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To drink to excess. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Prinked p. pr. & vb. n. Prinking. ] [ Probably a nasalized form of prick. See Prick, v. t., and cf. Prig, Prank. ] To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically. “And prink their hair with daisies.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who prinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Scot. renk, rink, rynk, a course, a race; probably fr. AS. hring a ring. See Ring. ] 1. The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An artificial sheet of ice, generally under cover, used for skating; also, a floor prepared for skating on with roller skates, or a building with such a floor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who skates at a rink. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Skating in a rink. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. Shrank r Shrunk pos>p. p. Shrunk or Shrunken but the latter is now seldom used except as a participial adjective; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrinking. ] [ OE. shrinken, schrinken, AS. scrincan; akin to OD. schrincken, and probably to Sw. skrynka a wrinkle, skrynkla to wrinkle, to rumple, and E. shrimp, n. & v., scrimp. CF. Shrimp. ] 1. To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. [ 1913 Webster ]

And on a broken reed he still did stay
His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Against this fire do I shrink up. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the boards did shrink. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. [ 1913 Webster ]

What happier natures shrink at with affright,
The hard inhabitant contends is right. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. Jowett (Thucyd.) [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw back; to withdraw. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Libyc Hammon shrinks his horn. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shrink on (Mach.), to fix (one piece or part) firmly around (another) by natural contraction in cooling, as a tire on a wheel, or a hoop upon a cannon, which is made slightly smaller than the part it is to fit, and expanded by heat till it can be slipped into place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink,
That I had less to praise. Leigh Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Contraction of head-shrinker, a colloquial term for psychiatrist. ] a psychiatrist. [ Coll. ] [ PJC ]

n. 1. The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Decrease in value; depreciation. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Shrink. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shrinking head (Founding), a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a shrinking manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

, n. same as shrink-wrap, n.. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. shrink-wrapped or shrink"wrapped p. pr. & vb. n. shrink"wrapping or shrink"-wrapping.] to wrap and seal (an object for sale) in a transparent sheet of plastic material that is shrunken to a tight-fitting wrapping by the application of heat. [PJC]

, n. a type of plastic film, usually transparent, that shrinks upon application of heat, and may be used to form a wrapping around objects that fits tightly and closely follows the contours of the wrapped object; -- also called shrink-pack, shrinkpack or shrink-wrapping. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sprinkled p. pr. & vb. n. Sprinkling ] [ OE. sprenkelen, freq. of sprengen to sprinkle, to scatter, AS. sprengan, properly, to make to spring, causative of springan to spring; akin to D. sprenkelen to sprinkle, G. sprengen. See Spring, v. i., and cf. Sprent. ] 1. To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify. [ 1913 Webster ]

Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Heb. x. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the priest shall . . . sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. Lev. xiv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fly or be scattered in small drops or particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A utensil for sprinkling; a sprinkler. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who sprinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like separate drops, or as if scattered like drops. Craik. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of fishing net. [ Obs. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. trinquet foremast, also, a certain sail, trinquette a triangular sail, or Sp. trinquete triangular. ] (Naut.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. trenket a sort of knife, hence, probably, a toy knife worn as an ornament; probably from an Old French dialectic form of trenchier to cut. Cf. Trench, v. t. ] 1. A knife; a cutting tool. Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who trinkets. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]