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noun Drinking n. 1.The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing. 2.The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors. 3.An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking glass, drinking house, etc. Drinking horn, a drinking vessel made of a horn.
verb Drink v. t. (past drank, formerly drunk; past part. drunk, formerly drunken; pres. part. drinking) 1.To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. "There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed." "The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room." 2.To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. "And let the purple violets drink the stream." 3.To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. "To drink the cooler air," "My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance." "Let me... drink delicious poison from thy eye." 4.To smoke, as tobacco. (Obs.) "And some men now live ninety years and past, Who never drank to tobacco first nor last." To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. To drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. "Song was the form of literature which he (Burns) had drunk in from his cradle." To drink off or To drink up, to drink completely, especially at one draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial. To drink the health of, or To drink to the health of, to drink while expressing good wishes for the health or welfare of.
Drink v. i. (past drank, formerly drunk; past part. drunk, formerly drunken; pres. part. drinking) 1.To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. "Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink." "He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty." "Drink of the cup that can not cloy." 2.To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to tipple. "And they drank, and were merry with him." "Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely." To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking. "I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo."
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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