to drink off

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to drink off - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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              There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss,
              There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs.
              Betty's room.                         --Thackeray.
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     2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to
        absorb; to imbibe.
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              And let the purple violets drink the stream.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     3. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to
        inhale; to hear; to see.
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              To drink the cooler air,              --Tennyson.
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              My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words
              Of that tongue's utterance.           --Shak.
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              Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye.
                                                    --Pope.
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     4. To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.]
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              And some men now live ninety years and past,
              Who never drank to tobacco first nor last. --Taylor
                                                    (1630.)
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     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.
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