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; DRUNKSHIP
Drunk"en*ship, Drunk"ship, n.
Defn: The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.
DRUPACEOUS
Dru*pa"ceous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. drupacé.] (Bot.)
Defn: Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.
DRUPAL
Drup"al, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Drupaceous.
DRUPE
Drupe, n. Etym: [F. drupe, L. drupa an overripe, wrinkled olive, fr.
Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.
DRUPEL; DRUPELET
Drup"el, Drupe"let, n. Etym: [Dim. of Drupe.] (Bot.)