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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drink \Drink\, v. t.
1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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