intransitive. To drink to excess, to become drunk.

to wash one's face in an ale clout: to get drunk. Obsolete.

Phrases. to shoe the goose, gosling: see those words; similarly to shoe the gander, †the daw. Also, †to shoe the goose (slang): to get drunk. to sho…

Phrases: †to catch, hunt the fox: to get drunk. to flay the fox: see flay, v. 6.to play (the) fox: (a) to act cunningly, (b) to sham. †to smell a fox…

a token given in change by a tavern-keeper, which he will again accept in payment; †to swallow a tavern-token, to get drunk (obsolete).

euphemistic. to read Geneva print and variants: to get drunk, become inebriated; to behave in a drunken manner. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

Phrases. to whip the cat: used (chiefly dialect or technical colloquial) in various senses, some of which are not satisfactorily explained.

intransitive. To become intoxicated. Obsolete. rare.

in to hunt a tavern-fox, to get drunk: see fox, n. 1d and fox, v. 2d.

intransitive. To get drunk. Obsolete.

intransitive. To drink alcoholic liquor; to get drunk. Now rare.

to fuddle one's capor nose: to get drunk.

To incur the privation of (something that one possesses or has control of); to part with through… with object a limb, a faculty, one's life, etc. to…

transitive (reflexive). To drink gin or other intoxicating drink; to become drunk. Obsolete.

(with out) ? To displace by stone.

intransitive. To drink beer; to get drunk, esp. on beer. Also transitive with it.

With up: to become intoxicated. U.S. slang.

A drunken condition, esp. in to get, have, tie a bun on: to become drunk.

intransitive. To drink alcohol, esp. excessively.

To drink so as to become intoxicated, to carouse. slang.

With up. intransitive. To get drunk.

A drinking spree; a drunken night out. to cop a reeler: to get drunk.

In figurative phrases. to tie the hands of: to deprive of freedom of action. to tie the knot: to effect a union between two persons or things; esp.…