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Drunken
Drunken Drunk"en, a. [AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk.] 1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. -- Bacon. 2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken with our blood. -- Shak. 3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication. The drunken quarrels of a rake. -- Swift.
Drunkenhead
Drunkenhead Drunk"en*head, n. Drunkenness. [Obs.]
Drunkenly
Drunkenly Drunk"en*ly, adv. In a drunken manner. [R.] --Shak.
Drunkenness
Drunkenness Drunk"en*ness, n. 1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. --I. Watts. 2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. -- South. Syn: Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. ``This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.' --Burke.
Drunkenship
Drunkenship Drunk"en*ship, Drunkship Drunk"ship, n. The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] --Gower.
Fordrunken
Fordrunken For*drunk"en, a. Utterly drunk; very drunk. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Shrunken
Shrink Shrink, v. i. [imp. Shrankor Shrunkp. 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. And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. --Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. --Bacon. Against this fire do I shrink up. --Shak. And shrink like parchment in consuming fire. --Dryden. All the boards did shrink. --Coleridge. 2. To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress. What happier natures shrink at with affright, The hard inhabitant contends is right. --Pope. They assisted us against the Thebans when you shrank from the task. --Jowett (Thucyd.) 3. To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake. [R.] --Shak.
Shrunken
Shrunken Shrunk"en, p. p. & a. from Shrink.
Sunken
Sink Sink, v. i. [imp. Sunk, or (Sank); p. p. Sunk (obs. Sunken, -- now used as adj.); p. pr. & vb. n. Sinking.] [OE. sinken, AS. sincan; akin to D. zinken, OS. sincan, G. sinken, Icel. s["o]kkva, Dan. synke, Sw. sjunka, Goth. siggan, and probably to E. silt. Cf. Silt.] 1. To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west. I sink in deep mire. --Ps. lxix. 2. 2. To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate. The stone sunk into his forehead. --1 San. xvii. 49. 3. Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely. Let these sayings sink down into your ears. --Luke ix. 44. 4. To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the ground, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. --Shak. He sunk down in his chariot. --2 Kings ix. 24. Let not the fire sink or slacken. --Mortimer. 5. To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height. The Alps and Pyreneans sink before him. --Addison. Syn: To fall; subside; drop; droop; lower; decline; decay; decrease; lessen.
Sunken
Sunken Sunk"en, a. Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.
Unkennel
Unkennel Un*ken"nel, v. t. [1st un- + kennel.] 1. To drive from a kennel or hole; as, to unkennel a fox. 2. Fig.: To discover; to disclose. --Shak.
Unkent
Unkent Un*kent", a. [Un- knot + ken to know.] Unknown; strange. [Obs. or Scot.] --W. Browne.

Meaning of Unken from wikipedia

- Unken is a muni****lity in the district of Zell am See (Pinzgau region), in the state of Salzburg in Austria. "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen...
- Unken is a muni****lity in the district of Zell am See in the state of Salzburg in Austria. Unken may also refer to: Unkenreflex or unken reflex, a defensive...
- Unkenreflex – interchangeably referred to as unken reflex (Unke is the German word for fire-bellied toads) – is a defensive posture adopted by several...
- 2008 2. Kl****e Nord A Champions: 2007 S****irchen 1b vs. Austria 2006 TSV Unken vs. Austria 2007 Austria vs. Schleedorf 2007 As of 25 June 2024 Note: Flags...
- with a potential predator, these toads commonly engage in an unkenreflex, Unken- being the combining form of Unke, German for fire-bellied toad. In the...
- Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Saalfelden, St. Martin bei Lofer, Stuhlfelden, Taxenbach, Unken, Uttendorf, Viehhofen, Wald im Pinzgau, Weißbach bei Lofer, Zell am See...
- length, and most noted for their bright bellies. They often display the unken reflex when disturbed; the animal will arch its back and limbs to expose...
- conceivable predator. Taricha torosa has also been known to utilize the "unken reflex" in response to threats from predators. In this posture the California...
- ISSN 0020-1812. S2CID 2070334. Firschein, I. Lester (1951). "Phragmosis and the "Unken Reflex" in a Mexican Hylid Frog, Pternohyla fodiens". Copeia. 1951 (1):...
- Tresterer in the Austrian Pinzgau region, the stilt dancers in the town of Unken, the Schnabelpercht or Schnabelperchten ("trunked Percht") in the Unterinntal...