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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dine v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dined p. pr. & vb. n. Dining.]  To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
    Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.   --Shak.
 To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Duke n.
 1. A leader; a chief; a prince. [Obs.]
    Hannibal, duke of Carthage.   --Sir T. Elyot.
    All were dukes once, who were =\“duces” -- captains or leaders of their people.\=   --Trench.
 2. In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland.
 3. In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king.
 Duke's coronet. See Illust. of Coronet.
 To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner. See under Dine.