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Wa(u)cht, v. Also: va(u)cht, waught. [? Onomatopœic. Cf. e.m.E. quaft (1523), quaught (1530), quaff (1555-8).] a. intr.To drink alcohol in copious quantities. b. tr.To drink (wine), empty (a cup) out. c. transf.To lose or damage (the mind) by drinking.a. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 39.
Thay wauchtit at the wicht wyne 1513 Doug. viii iv 198.
Waucht and drynk, brying cowpys full in handis 1531 Bell. Boece II 257.
His army … began to waucht … and to have experience quha micht ingorge thair wambe with maist voracite 1533 Boece 456b.
Norowayis … of the wichtest wynes provokit vtheris to waucht 1535 Stewart 39549.
Tha eit and drank bayth of the aill and wyne, Richt mirrely ay wauchtand round about 1558 Prot. Bk. Sir A. Gaw (SRS) 45.
Thai birlit vyn on him and gart him vaucht quhil he … ves drunkin 1624 Aberd. B. Rec. II 391.
That nane presume … to wse … excessive drinking or scolling, or to vrge thair nichtbouris to waught or scole farder nor thair plesourb. 1513 Doug. vii ii 90.
In flacon and in skull Thai skynk the wyne, and wauchtis cowpis full 1567 G. Ball. 26.
To wacht gude wyne 1581 Sat. P. xliv 94.
That nather lord nor knicht he lute alane, Except his coup var vachtit out aluayc. a1561 Norvell Meroure 49a.
The wine is good … But not as some hes surfetlie done vse, Away to waught their wittes naturall: And with the wyne their braines till abuse
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