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.

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