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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drink \Drink\ (dr[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. {Drank} (dr[a^][ng]k), formerly {Drunk} (dr[u^][ng]k); & p. p. {Drunk}, {Drunken} (-'n); p. pr & vb n. {Drinking}. Drunken is now rarely used except as a verbal adj in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan akin to OS drinkan D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka Sw dricka Dan. drikke Goth. drigkan Cf {Drench}, {Drunken}, {Drown}.] 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 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drunk \Drunk\, a. [OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See {Drink}.] 1. Intoxicated with or as with strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. -- Eph. v. 18. Drunk with recent prosperity. --Macaulay. 2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. -- Deut. xxxii 42. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drunk \Drunk\, n. A drunken condition; a spree. [Slang] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: drunk adj 1: stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated" [syn: {intoxicated}, {inebriated}] [ant: {sober}] 2: as if under the influence of alcohol; "felt intoxicated by her success"; "drunk with excitement" [syn: {intoxicated}] n 1: a chronic drinker [syn: {drunkard}, {rummy}, {sot}, {inebriate}] 2: someone who is intoxicated From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Drunk The first case of intoxication on record is that of Noah (Gen. 9:21). The sin of drunkenness is frequently and strongly condemned (Rom. 13:13; 1 Cor. 6:9, 10; Eph. 5:18; 1 Thess. 5:7, 8). The sin of drinking to excess seems to have been not uncommon among the Israelites. The word is used figuratively, when men are spoken of as being drunk with sorrow, and with the wine of God's wrath (Isa. 63:6; Jer. 51:57; Ezek. 23:33). To "add drunkenness to thirst" (Deut. 29:19, A.V.) is a proverbial expression, rendered in the Revised Version "to destroy the moist with the dry", i.e., the well-watered equally with the dry land, meaning that the effect of such walking in the imagination of their own hearts would be to destroy one and all
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