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i. [L. Ger. bevern.] To shake, tremble. "Mani knightes shoke and bevered ." Morte d'Arthur , i. 15. ( Stratmann .) IMG:content-1291.png:[blocks in formation] L Of liquors themselves: 1. Gen. Any liquid used for drinking. "He knew no beverage but the flowing streain." Thomson: Castle of Indolence , ii. 7. 2. Spec. Water-cyder. ( Mortimer .) * II. Of treats of liquor or their equivalent in money demanded in certain circumstances, or anything similar : 1. A treat formerly demanded by one's fellow workmen upon one's, putting on a new suit of clothes. ( Johnson .) 2. A treat of old demanded from a prisoner on first being incarcerated. It was called also a "garnish." ( Johnson .) 3. A salute given by a man to a woman on the former putting on a new article of dre ; as, "She gat the beverage o' his braw new coat." ( Jamie son .) 535