'To drink down' definitions:
Definition of 'To drink down'
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- Drink \Drink\, v. t.
- 1. To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. [1913 Webster]
- There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. [1913 Webster]
- And let the purple violets drink the stream. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. [1913 Webster]
- To drink the cooler air, --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And some men now live ninety years and past, Who never drank to tobacco first nor last. --Taylor (1630.) [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To drink down'
- Drink,
- Drinking,
- In drink,
- To drink in,
- To drink off,
- To drink to,
- To drink up,
- drink down,
- drink in,
- drink to,
- drink up,
- By-drinking,
- Drink money,
- Drink offering,
- Drink penny,
- Drinking horn,
- Grace drink,
- Love drink,
- Single drink,
- Strong drink,
- To drink a health,
- To drink the health of,
- To drink to the health of,
- Wood drink,
- alcoholic drink,
- black drink,
- drink strong,
- drinking age,
- drinking bout,
- drinking chocolate,
- drinking fountain,
- drinking glass,
- drinking song,
- drinking straw,
- drinking vessel,
- drinking water,
- fruit drink,
- hard drink,
- mixed drink,
- round of drinks,
- soft drink,
- tea-like drink