Alms-drink, according to Warburton, a phrase amongst good fellows, to signify that liquor of another's share which his companion drinks to ease him; but in the only passage in which it occurs “(they have made him drink a.” Ant. II, 7, 5) it evidently means the leavings.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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