(v. i.) To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels.
(v. t.) To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.
Example Sentences:
(1) She urges officers to watch out for "late-night carousing, long sessions, yet another bottle of wine at lunch – they are all longstanding media tactics to get you to spill the beans.
(2) Late-night carousing, long sessions, yet another bottle of wine at lunch – these are longstanding media tactics to get you spill the beans.
(3) The secret service's reputation for rowdy behaviour was reinforced in April 2012 in the runup to Obama's visit to the Caribbean resort of Cartagena in Colombia, where 13 agents and officers were accused of carousing with female foreign nationals at a hotel where they were staying before the president's arrival.
(4) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
(5) Tom is a heavy metal fan who, as Matt says in the film, thinks indie rock is "pretentious bullshit"; the National are all around 40 with their carousing days behind them, so Tom brought the party himself, getting wasted on his own and filming himself for kicks.
(6) No doubt he would look back on that evening, what he remembers of it anyway, with a wistful remembrance of the luxury of anonymity, the ability to carouse mostly unmolested from pub to pub on one of the busiest neighbourhoods in the world.
(7) But even then people pointed out that Munich’s heavy autumnal rainfall wasn’t conducive to excessive carousing.
(8) We expected some light-hearted carousing appropriate to this time of year, but didn’t expect to stumble upon these rabble-rousers and police in riot gear.” Among the groups taking part, according to the police, were two soccer hooligan organisations already known to the police called “Faust des Ostens” (Fist of the East) and Hooligans Elbflorenz (Florence of the Elbe Hooligans), as well as members of the National Democratic Party (NPD).
(9) An average of 8.2 carious teeth with 14.0 carous surfaces required treatment.
(10) They were accused of carousing with female foreign nationals at a hotel where they were staying before Obama’s arrival.
(11) The problem is that pirates are such poor role models, drinking rum and carousing with women, cutting people’s throats and making them walk the plank and so on.
(12) The Mancunian has a loyal and diverse array of friends who delight in his love of karaoke and late-night carousing at the Groucho.
(13) In December secret policemen spent the evening carousing with Mr Putin, not at their Lubyanka headquarters in Moscow but in the Kremlin, to celebrate the foundation in December 1917 of the Cheka, the Bolshevik forerunner of the KGB which developed into the key instrument of the Great Terror.
(14) The Lapin is atmospheric: a two-room cabin from the 1860s where generations of artists and ne’er-do-wells have caroused, from the impressionists onwards.
Draught
Definition:
(n.) The act of drawing or pulling
(n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.
(n.) The drawing of a bowstring.
(n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.
(n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
(n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
(n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)
(n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
(n.) That which is drawn
(n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.
(n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.
(n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.
(n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.
(n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.
(n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.
(n.) That which draws
(n.) A team of oxen or horses.
(n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
(n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.
(n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
(n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.
(n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
(n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.
(n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.
(n.) See Draft, n., 7.
(a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
(a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
(a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.
(v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.
(v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
(v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to investigate the effect of food intake on the amount of fluid ingested and the intervals between draughts and the effect of fluid intake on the amount of food ingested and the intervals between meals, the eating, drinking, and core temperature of 15 adult male rats were continuously monitored for 14 days.
(2) Lester Young often commented that “I feel a draught” when he sensed a racist atmosphere, and his personality became radically more insular after the abuse he suffered in the US army in 1945.
(3) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
(4) The brace has strong anti-bending strength and draught force.
(5) So they got rid of the car, installed low-energy bulbs , insulation and draught-proofing, and a year-and-a-half ago they bought a wood-burning stove .
(6) The results of a series of cold challenges to the hand, repeated on a normal subject in a temperature-controlled room and in other parts of a rheumatology ward, show very good reproducibility outside the temperature-controlled room, provided that the immediate environment is draught-free.
(7) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
(8) But that may be the least of Ukip’s woes as it sups the bitter draught of victory.
(9) Relief from the complaints is improved by physiotherapy and by avoiding the detrimental influence of bad posture, nervous stress, air draughts, cold chills etc.
(10) Muscle fibre recruitment was investigated during draught loaded exercise by studying glycogen depletion patterns from histochemical stains of muscle biopsies from the gluteus and semitendinosus muscles.
(11) The increase in metabolic requirements during the three levels of draught exercise was associated with increases in arterial hemoglobin concentration and oxygen content of blood.
(12) Draught-free homes are comfortable at lower temperatures, so you'll be able to turn down your thermostat, which could save another £55 a year.
(13) In particular, connections between population and presence of some fish species draughted has been studied, considering ecological, reproductive and trophic habits of fishes, in order to value relations between the influence these populations exert on fishing and biological characteristics of the quantitatively more meaningful fish species.
(14) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
(15) It was concluded that high oxidative capacity is of importance both for fast trotting and for draught work.
(16) The major clinical conditions encountered were those which adversely affect the performance of draught animals and those causing infertility.
(17) The role of camels in transport and draught is discussed.
(18) A cart equipped with an odometer, for measuring distance, and a hydraulic dynamometer, for measuring draught force, was used.
(19) Cask beer aside, Fringe majors on continental and Belgian bottles, with the likes of Duvel, Leffe and Timmerman's on draught, as well as real perries and ciders.
(20) Draught whisky and whisky in cans – available in vending machines in Japan to consumers with an ID smartcard to prove their age – are still a long way off in the west.