uvesco
From LSJ
οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν → chase out the wine with wine, take a hair of the dog that bit you, try to drive out the wine with wine
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ūvesco: ĕre,
I v. inch. n. [uveo, uvens, to grow or become moist, wet, damp, dank, or humid (poet.).
I Lit.: suspensae in litore vestes Uvescunt, Lucr. 1, 306; Avien. Arat. 254.—
II Transf., poet., to moisten or refresh one's self, i. e. to drink freely, to tipple: seu quis capit acria fortis Pocula, seu modicis uvescit laetius, * Hor. S. 2, 6, 70.
