资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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

            The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs.
            Betty's room.                         --Thackeray.

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

            And let the purple violets drink the stream.
                                                  --Dryden.

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

            To drink the cooler air,              --Tennyson.

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

            Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye.
                                                  --Pope.

   4. To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.]

            And some men now live ninety years and past, Who
            never drank to tobacco first nor last. --Taylor
                                                  (1630.)

   {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 {up}, to drink the whole at a 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.