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wine

[wahyn] noun, adjective, verb, wined, win⋅ing.
–noun
1. the fermented juice of grapes, made in many varieties, such as red, white, sweet, dry, still, and sparkling, for use as a beverage, in cooking, in religious rites, etc., and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.
2. a particular variety of such fermented grape juice: port and sherry wines.
3. the juice, fermented or unfermented, of various other fruits or plants, used as a beverage, sauce, etc.: gooseberry wine; currant wine.
4. a dark reddish color, as of red wines.
5. Pharmacology. vinum.
6. something that invigorates, cheers, or intoxicates like wine.
7. British.
a. a social gathering at which wine is the major beverage.
b. a party, esp. one held by university students, for drinking wine.
8. Obsolete. intoxication due to the drinking of wine.
–adjective
9. dark red in color.
–verb (used with object)
10. to supply with wine: He wined his cellar with rare vintages.
–verb (used without object)
11. to drink wine.
12. new wine in old bottles, something new placed in or superimposed on an old or existing form, system, etc. Matt. 9:17.
13. wine and dine, to entertain lavishly: They wined and dined us in order to get us to sign the new contract.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME (n.), OE wīn (c. D wijn, G Wein, ON vīn, Goth wein) ≪ L vīnum (c. Gk oînos)


wineless, adjective
winish, adjective
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: wine
Pronunciation: 'wIn
Function: noun
1 : fermented grape juice containing varying percentages of alcohol together with ethers andesters that give it bouquet and flavor
2 : a pharmaceutical preparation using wine as a vehicle
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Idioms & Phrases

wine and dine

Entertain someone or treat someone to a fine meal, as in The company likes to wine and dine visiting scientists. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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