| drink | 1. Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions. "Give me some drink, Titinius." (Shak) 2. Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out. Drink money, or Drink penny, an allowance, or perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity. Drink offering, an offering of wine, etc, in the Jewish religious service. In drink, drunk. "The poor monster's in drink." . Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; especially, liquor containing a large proportion of alcohol. " Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging." (Prov. Xx. 1) 1. To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. "There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed." (Spenser) "The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room." (Thackeray) 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) 4. To smoke, as tobacco. "And some men now live ninety years and past, who never drank to tobacco first nor last." (Taylor (1630)) To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. 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." . To drink off or up, to drink the whole at a 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| omnipotence of thought | A childish or magical thought process whereby instantaneous gratification of fantasies and wishes is believed to be imminent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thought broadcasting | The delusion of experiencing one's thoughts, as they occur, as being broadcast from one's head to the external world where other people can hear them. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thought insertion | The delusion that one's thoughts are not really one's own but are being placed into one's mind by an external force. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thought process disorder | An intellectual function symptom of schizophrenia, manifested by irrelevance and incoherence of verbal productions ranging from simple blocking and mild circumstantiality to total loosening of associations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thought withdrawal | The delusion that one's thoughts have been removed from one's head resulting in a diminished number of thoughts remaining. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trend of thought | Thinking with a tendency toward or centreing on a particular idea with a particular affect. (05 Mar 2000) |
| extrasensory thought transference | The knowledge or communication by one person with the mental processes of another through channels other than known physical or perceptual processes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bacterial food poisoning | A term commonly used to refer to conditions limited to enteritis or gastroenteritis (excluding the enteric fevers and the dysenteries) caused by bacterial multiplication per se or by a soluble bacterial exotoxin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| health food | A non-medical term defined by the lay public as a food that has little or no preservatives, which has not undergone major processing, enrichment or refinement and which may be grown without pesticides. Health foods have been attributed with the ability to prevent the development of diseases, slow the aging process, and prolong life. (12 Dec 1998) |
| salmonella food poisoning | Poisoning caused by ingestion of food harboring species of salmonella. Conditions of raising, shipping, slaughtering, and marketing of domestic animals contribute to the spread of this bacterium in the food supply. (12 Dec 1998) |
| staphylococcal food poisoning | Poisoning by staphylococcal toxins present in contaminated food. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Staphylococcus food poisoning | Outbreaks commonly caused by staphylococcal enterotoxin and characterised by an abrupt onset of gastroenteritis within several hours after ingestion of the food contaminated with the preformed exotoxin; vomiting is usually more severe and diarrhoea less severe than in infectious forms of bacterial food poisoning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| infant food | Food processed and manufactured for the nutritional health of children in their first year of life. (12 Dec 1998) |
| essential food factors | Those substances required in the diet: certain amino acids and unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, essential minerals, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |