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 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.
2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating
liquors.
3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a
compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking
glass, drinking house, etc.
{Drinking horn}, a drinking vessel made of a horn.