Verb

(ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.

* Spenser

There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, / There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.

* Thackeray

the bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room

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To consume alcoholic beverages.

* Thackeray

Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.

* Shakespeare

I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.

To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

* Dryden

Let the purple violets drink the stream.

To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

* Tennyson

to drink the cooler air

* Shakespeare

My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.

* Alexander Pope

Let me drink delicious poison from thy eye.

(obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.

* Taylor (1630)

And some men now live ninety years and past, / Who never drank tobacco first nor last.