Definitions for: Dine

[v] give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my friends"
[v] have supper; eat dinner; "We often dine with friends in this restaurant"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. --Shak.

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.

Dine, v. t.
1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to
feed; as, to dine a hundred men.

A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie
Armstrong and his merry men. --Sir W.
Scott.

2. To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.] ``What will ye
dine.'' --Chaucer.

See Also: dine in, dine out, eat, eat in, eat out, feed, give

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