Meanings of imbiber in English

Cider is said to render the imbiber gout-proof and rheumatism-proof, but requires a long apprenticeship to render it palatable.

I thought that perhaps the outer signs might mask some inner effect that was not apparent to any but the imbiber.

I pride myself on being a discerning wine imbiber, yet would I in an emergency resort to box wine with suspect origins?

Some of them refuse to concede that a teetotaler is necessarily healthier or happier or more useful to the world than the moderate imbiber is.

I do not neglect him, and under her breath she laughed, as she exhibited the great bunch of keys she had taken from the imbiber.

Of course, it hopes it will be agreeable to older imbibers as well.

Part of its attraction for today's louche imbibers is the paraphernalia associated with the drink.

A recent survey in a British Sunday newspaper confirms what we passionate imbibers have suspected all along.

For us, this only slightly softens the blow that the Mint Julep has been vilified as toxic by imbibers worldwide.

This might have prompted a choice riposte from such as Winston Churchill, for example, he being one of history's great imbibers.

Said to turn mild-mannered imbibers into raving maniacs, it was banned in the US and much of Europe in the early 1900s.

While there's a fine wine list for serious imbibers, 45 bottles on the main list cost under £20stg.

Having thus happily attended to the inner man, I put my back to the mahogany bar and took a good look at my fellow imbibers.