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 Drink, v. t.
 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.   --Spenser.
    The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room.   --Thackeray.
 2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
    And let the purple violets drink the stream.   --Dryden.
 3. 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.
 4. 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 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.