costive

I've heard that before, to mean drunk, but not costive.

If he did ask her she would become costive.

The card costive euros and comes with 3 days of service.

"At least I'll not be costive for a bit."

"Still, I grant ye, the thought's enough to make one a bit costive.

Good faith, you look As you were costive; best go home and purge, sir.

And there was something costive about his secretiveness.

Mrs. Fish's not unpiscine face was now costive with attention.

"And the drug makes him costive, which makes him even more bad-tempered."

You were costive for a week afterward."

You are thin, grey - costive, no doubt.

They were both rather costive conversationalists.

They write small, seldom dotting "i's" or crossing "t's" and they are frequently costive.

She sat down at the narrow dining- table, and he seated himself opposite, with the costive feeling of one who cannot find words that will ring true.

Who is, Indeed, sir, somewhat costive of belief Toward your stone; would not be gull'd.

I cure goiter and worm, costive impaction, stricture and bloat.

In contrast, his verse seemed, like poor Mr. Enderby, cramped and costive.

For butcher's work - well, we've had more clap and costive complaints than gunshot wounds lately, so I don't know.'

'It's amazing how the prospect of action cures costive complaints and rheumatic pains!'

At least, Stoddard, you now see that, although so costive, when I once begin I am a copious letter-writer.

"Surely you can't be interested in all the costive problems, venereal disease, cuts, blisters and abrasions of more than fifty seamen?"

(In truth I had to coax and canoodle a reluctant spark from my grumpy and costive engine block.

Her mother had sat at the crowded dinner table, drinking steadily and smoking and speculating aloud on why her daughter had married costive Brian.

But happen tie's costive or flatulent' she made a moue of distaste - 'the boy'll lose an ear or a h and, most like.'