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
Drunk"en*head, n.
Defn: Drunkenness. [Obs.]
DRUNKENLY
Drunk"en*ly, adv.
Defn: In a drunken manner. [R.] Shak.
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.