subs. (American).—One taking a drink; a SPREESTER (q.v.).
1847. W. T. PORTER, ed., A Quarter Race in Kentucky, etc., p. 126. The cards were dropt instanter … and the MOURNERS were soon distributed in knots upon the promenade deck.
1848. DURIVAGE, Stray Subjects, p. 110. By common consent the ‘MOURNERS’ settled themselves down into comparative quiet.
