Word Meanings - WHISKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shallow drinking bowl. Ray.

Related words: (words related to WHISKIN)

• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• DRINKER
  One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• DRINKABLENESS
  State of being drinkable.
• SHALLOW-PATED
  Shallow-brained.
• SHALLOWNESS
  Quality or state of being shallow.
• DRINKING
  1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing. 2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors. 3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking
• SHALLOW-HEARTED
  Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson.
• DRINKLESS
  Destitute of drink. Chaucer.
• SHALLOWLY
  In a shallow manner.
• SHALLOW-BODIED
  Having a moderate depth of hold; -- said of a vessel.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• DISHALLOW
  To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.
• OUTDRINK
  To exceed in drinking.
• BY-DRINKING
  A drinking between meals.