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- English Word Drink Definition To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.
- English Word Drink Definition To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
- English Word Drink Definition To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
- English Word Drink Definition To smoke, as tobacco.
- English Word Drink Definition Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.
- English Word Drink Definition Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.
- English Word Drinkable Definition Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.
- English Word Drinkableness Definition State of being drinkable.
- English Word Drinker Definition One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.
- English Word Drinking Definition of Drink
- English Word Drinking Definition The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
- English Word Drinking Definition The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
- English Word Drinking Definition An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
- English Word Drinkless Definition Destitute of drink.
- English Word Drip Definition To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
- English Word Drip Definition To let fall drops of moisture or liquid; as, a wet garment drips.
- English Word Drip Definition To let fall in drops.
- English Word Drip Definition A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops.
- English Word Drip Definition That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and is of such section as to throw off the rain water.
- English Word Dripped Definition of Drip
- English Word Dripping Definition of Drip
- English Word Dripping Definition A falling in drops, or the sound so made.
- English Word Dripping Definition That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting.
- English Word Dripple Definition Weak or rare.
- English Word Dripstone Definition A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.
- English Word Dript Definition of Drip
- English Word Drith Definition Drought.
- English Word Drive Definition To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
- English Word Drive Definition To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.
- English Word Drive Definition To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.