to soak

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

1) To bake thoroughly. It is particularly applied to bread, which, to be good, must be macerated, as it were, in the caloric of the oven. If it be dough-baked, the complaint is, that it has not been sufficiently soaked.--Holloway, Forby's Vocabulary. This word is used in the same sense in New England.


2) To drink intemperately.--Johnson.

Let a drunkard see that his health decays, his estate wastes, yet the habitual thirst after his cups drives him to the tavern, though he has in his view the loss of health and plenty; the least of which he confesses is far greater than the tickling of his palate with a glass of wine, or the idle chat of a soaking- club.--Locke.

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

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