Habitual Drunkard
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A person given to ebriety or the excessive use of intoxicating drink, who has lost the power or the will, by frequent indulgence, to control his appetite for it.
5 Gray (Mass.) 85.
Occasional drunkenness is not enough (18 Pa. St. 172), yet daily intoxication is not required (112 Mass. 285).