DRINK, v.i. pret. and pp. drank. Old pret. And pp. drunk; pp. Drunken. [G. Drink and drench are radically the same word, and probably drown. We observe that n is not radical.]

1. To swallow, as liquids; to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; as, to drink water or wine.
2. To suck in; to absorb; to imbibe. And let the purple violets drink the stream. – Dryden.
3. To take in by any inlet; to hear; to see; as, to drink words or the voice. – Shak. Pope. I drink delicious poison from thy eye. – Pope.
4. To take in air; to inhale. To drink down, is to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. – Shak. To drink off, to drink the whole at a draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial. To drink in, to absorb; to take or receive into any inlet. To drink up, to drink the whole. To drink health, or to the health, a customary civility in which a person at taking a glass or cup, expresses his respect or kind wishes for another.

Liquor to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach, for quenching thirst, or for medicinal purposes; as water, wine, beer, cider, decoctions, &c.

1. To swallow liquor, for quenching thirst or other purpose; as, to drink of the brook. Ye shall indeed drink of my cup. – Matth. xx.
2. To take spirituous liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the use of spirituous liquors; to be a habitual drunkard. – Pope.
3. To feast; to be entertained with liquors. – Shak. To drink to, to salute in drinking; to invite to drink by drinking first; as, I drink to your grace. – Shak. #2. To wish well to, in the act of taking the cup. – Shak.

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. Luke xvii. 8.

   He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. Job xxi. 20.

   Drink of the cup that can not cloy. Keble.

2. 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. Spenser.

   The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. Thackeray.

3. Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.
   
   

   Give me some drink, Titinius. Shak.

4. 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 (?)se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
   
   
   Pope.

   And they drank, and were merry with him. Gem. xliii. 34.

   Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. Thackeray.

   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. Shak.

5. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
   
   

   And let the purple violets drink the stream. Dryden.

6. Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.
   
   

   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.

7. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
   
   

   To drink the cooler air, Tennyson.

   My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
   Of that tongue's utterance. Shak.

   Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye. Pope.

8. To smoke, as tobacco.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   And some men now live ninety years and past,
   Who never drank to tobacco first nor last. Taylor (1630.)

   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 up, to drink the whole at a 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.