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Ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking
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supping
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. take solid or liquid food into the mouth a little at a time either by drinking or by eating with a spoon [also: supping , supped ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supping \Sup"ping\, n. The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. That which is supped; broth. [Obs.] --Holland.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. 2 (context obsolete English) That which is supped; broth. vb. (present participle of sup English)
Usage examples of supping.
But after I had waited thus for half an hour a chamberlain came from the palace, and announced that his majesty could not do himself the honour of supping with my lord that night.
I had not told him he could not have entertained the hope of supping with you, and especially at your house.
This dislike to loneliness made me give orders that the table should be laid for two, and indeed, after supping with the marquis and myself, Veronique had some right to expect as much, to say nothing of those rights which her wit and beauty gave her.
I replied that I had not yet tried him, but I proposed to put him to test the next day, if she and the gentlemen would do me the honour of supping with me.
He told me how he had been supping with the old devotee Querini, who had had his hand kissed by a young and fair Venetian.
The Duc des Deux-Ponts told me this story with his own lips, one evening, when I was supping with him and a Swede, the Comte de Levenhoop, at Metz.
I wrote in haste to the syndic, telling him that an important and sudden call obliged me to start for Lausanne, but that I should have the pleasure of supping with him and his three friends at Geneva on the following day.
Delighted, however, with my discovery, I immediately conceived a plan which would procure you the pleasure of supping with him.
And how about your falling asleep yesterday when you were supping with M.
I was thinking of supping with the charming Helen and her three friends at the house on the lake, but an express summoned me to Lausanne.
While we were supping I led the conversation up to the bishop, and then to religion, that I might see what her principles were.
One night when I was supping with her she was seized with convulsions which lasted all the night.
I was asked to dine with Madame Tomatis, so I told my hosts that I would have the pleasure of supping with them, the costs to be borne by me.
A prey to grief I spent the day without taking any steps one way or the other, and I went to bed without supping and without the company of Donna Ignazia.
I determined to postpone matters till the next day, and told her not to get me any supper as I was supping with the Venetian consul.