Found 2 items, similar to dine.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: dine
dine
v 1: have supper; eat dinner;
“We often dine with friends in this
restaurant”
2: give dinner to; host for dinner;
“I'm wining and dining my
friends”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Dine
Dine
\Dine\, v. t.
1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to
feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
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A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie
Armstrong and his merry men. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.]
“What will ye
dine.” --Chaucer.
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Dine
\Dine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Dined; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dining.] [F. d[^i]ner, OF. disner, LL. disnare, contr. fr.
an assumed disjunare; dis- + an assumed junare (OF. juner) to
fast, for L. jejunare, fr. jejunus fasting. See
Jejune, and
cf.
Dinner,
D?jeuner.]
To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
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Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. --Shak.
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To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a
phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from
the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner
hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of
Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
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