Dictionary entry

Drunken

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.