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English Dictionary: Drank	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drake \Drake\, n. [Cf. F. dravik, W. drewg, darnel, cockle, etc.] Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also {drawk}, {dravick}, and {drank}. [Prov. Eng.] --Dr. Prior.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drank \Drank\, n. [Cf. 3d {Drake}.] Wild oats, or darnel grass. See {Drake} a plant. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drank \Drank\, imp. of {Drink}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drink \Drink\ (dr[icr][nsm]k), v. i. [imp. {Drank} (dr[acr][nsm]k), formerly {Drunk} (dr[ucr][nsm]k); & p. p. {Drunk}, {Drunken} (-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Drinking}. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p. p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan. drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. {Drench}, {Drunken}, {Drown}.] 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring. Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink. --Luke xvii. 8. He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. --Job xxi. 20. Drink of the cup that can not cloy. --Keble. 2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the [?]se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple. --Pope. And they drank, and were merry with him. --Gem. xliii. 34. Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. --Thackeray. {To drink to}, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking. I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And to our dear friend Banquo. --Shak.