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A drinking between meals...
Drink
To swallow anything liquid for quenching thirst or other purpose to imbibe to receive or partake of as if in satisfaction of thirst as to drink from a spring...
Drinking
The act of one who drinks the act of imbibing...
Drince-lean, or drink-lean
Drince-lean, or drink-lean, a contribution from tenants in the time of the Saxons towards a potation, or ale provided to entertain the lord or his steward....
Drinking-fountains
Drinking-fountains may be established in London by sanitary authorities in such convenient and suitable situations as they may deem proper under s. 51 of the (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 76), which takes the place of s. 70 of the (English) Metropolis Management Act, 1855...
Food
Food, Pan masala, gutka are held to be food within the meaning of s. 2(v) of Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, Godawal Pan Masala Products Ltd. v. Union of India, (2004) 7 SCC 68 (101): AIR 2004 SC 4057.Food. In the Sale of Food and Drugs Act (see ADULTERATION) the word includes 'every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water and any article which ordinarily enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of human food,' and also 'flavouring matters and condiments.'-(English) Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 51), s. 26; (English) Public Health Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 71), s. 72; and Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31), s. 34. For power to make regulations as to the importation of good, see AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE; AGRICULTURAL MARKETING; (English) Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 32). See generally, ADULTERATION, also (English) Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1927.Means ...
Beverage
Liquid for drinking drink usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor as an intoxicating beverage...
Imbibe
To drink in to absorb to soak up to suck or take in to receive as by drinking as a person imbibes drink or a sponge imbibes moisture...
Drunkenness
Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is voidable if the person with whom the contract was made was aware of the fact, but it is not void, and may be ratified when he becomes sober, Matthews v. Baxter, (1873) LR 8 Ex 132. Mere drunknness was punishable by statutes 4 Jac. 1, c. 5, and 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, ss. 1, 3, by a fine of five shillings and confinement in the stocks in default of distress. Under the Licensing Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), which repeals various previous enactments, drunkenness in a public place or licensed house is punishable by fine (s. 12). Disorderly drunkenness is punishable by fine or imprisonment, and refusal by drunken persons to quit licensed premises is punishable by fine. [(English) Licensing Consolidation Act, 1910, s. 80]The 1st s. of the (English) Licensing Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 28), enacts that--If a person is found drunk in any highw...
Cup
A small vessel used commonly to drink from as a tin cup a silver cup a wine cup especially in modern times the pottery or porcelain vessel commonly with a handle used with a saucer in drinking tea coffee and the like...
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