[L., a. Gr. Βάκχος.] The god of wine; hence, wine, intoxicating liquor. Son of Bacchus: a tippler.
c. 1496. Dunbar, Gold. Terge, 124. Bacus, the gladder of the table.
c. 1640. Waller, Battle of Summer-Isl., I. 17.
| The sweet Palmettas a new Bacchus yield, | |
| With Leaves as ample as the broadest Shield. |
1747. Scheme Equip. Men of War, 36. The more corpulent Sons of Bacchus … might have Easy-Chairs.
1823. Byron, Island, II. xi. The palm … Within whose bosom infant Bacchus broods.
b. Comb. Bacchus-bole; Bacchus-like.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., Bacchus-Bole, a Flower that is not tall, but a very full, large, broad-leav’d Flower, being of a sad light Purple.
1600. Witt’s Recr., in Southey’s Common-pl. Bk., Ser. II. 314. They mean, then, Bacchus-like to feed.
