1. Drink; a draught.
1732. Mrs. Pendarves, Lett., 30 March, in Mrs. Delany’s Corr., I. 346. We … had a profusion of ‘peck & booz’ (terms for meat & drink).
2. Drinking, a drinking bout.
1864. Burton, Scot Abr., II. ii. 198. An occasional hard boose, and its consequent headache.
1877. Baring-Gould, Myst. Suffering, 51. A booze of bad ale.
1884. St. James’s Gaz., 19 Dec., 4/1. There was a great ‘booze’ on board.
