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DrunkenDrunken 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.
DrunkennessDrunkenness 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.
ShrunkenShrink 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. ShrunkenShrunken Shrunk"en,
p. p. & a. from Shrink. SunkenSink 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
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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...
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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...
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Unkenreflex –
interchangeably referred to as
unken reflex (Unke is the
German word for fire-bellied toads) – is a
defensive posture adopted by several...
- Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Saalfelden, St.
Martin bei Lofer, Stuhlfelden, Taxenbach,
Unken, Uttendorf, Viehhofen, Wald im Pinzgau, Weißbach bei Lofer, Zell am See...
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conceivable predator.
Taricha torosa has also been
known to
utilize the "
unken reflex" in
response to
threats from predators. In this
posture the California...
- cast are much more
friendly than initially.
Unken Inuzuka (犬塚 雲軒,
Inuzuka Unken)
Voiced by: Tesshō
Genda Unken is a
martial arts
master and the
father of...
- 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...
- 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...
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Tresterer in the
Austrian Pinzgau region, the
stilt dancers in the town of
Unken, the
Schnabelpercht or
Schnabelperchten ("trunked Percht") in the Unterinntal...
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alarm call to
indicate danger. They have also been seen
demonstrating the
unken reflex when caught. This frog is
listed as
threatened and is
protected by...
