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   Drink , v. i. [imp. Drank , formerly Drunk ; & p. p. Drunk, Drunken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. Drench, Drunken, Drown.]
   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.
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   Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
   Luke xvii. 8.
   
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   He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty.
   Job xxi. 20.
   
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   Drink of the cup that can not cloy.
   Keble.
   
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   To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the use of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
   Pope.
   
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   And they drank, and were merry with him.
   Gem. xliii. 34.
   
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   Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
   Thackeray.
   
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   To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.
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   I drink to the general joy of the whole table,
   And to our dear friend Banquo.
   Shak.
   
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   Drink, v. t.
   To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.
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   There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss,
   There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
   Spenser.
   
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   The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room.
   Thackeray.
   
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   To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
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   And let the purple violets drink the stream.
   Dryden.
   
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   To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
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   To drink the cooler air,
   Tennyson.
   
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   My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
   Of that tongue's utterance.
   Shak.
   
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   Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye.
   Pope.
   
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   To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.]
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   And some men now live ninety years and past,
   Who never drank to tobacco first nor last.
   Taylor (1630.)
   
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   To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. Shak. -- 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.” J. C. Shairp. -- 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.
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   Drink, n.
   Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.
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   Give me some drink, Titinius.
   Shak.
   
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   Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.
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   Drink money, or Drink penny, an allowance, or perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity. -- Drink offering (Script.), an offering of wine, etc., in the Jewish religious service. -- In drink, drunk. “The poor monster's in drink.” Shak. -- Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; esp., liquor containing a large proportion of alcohol. “ Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.” 
   Prov. xx. 1.
   
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