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To drink the health of

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 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.

Usage examples of "to drink the health of".

Anthony caused pearls to be dissolved in wine to drink the health of Cleopatra.

If they will cross and set up their camp beside our own, we will bring out enough casks of wine and ale for all to drink the health of Lord Edmure and his bride.