[f. WINE sb.1]
† 1. trans. (nonce-uses.) a. with out, to spend in drinking wine.
c. 1624. [see WENCH v.].
b. To furnish (a cellar) with wine.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett., II. liv. (1890), 456. Tho’ it be interdicted to wine the King’s Cellar with it, in respect of the corrosiveness it carries with it.
2. intr. To take wine, esp. at an undergraduates’ wine-party. colloq.
1829. C. Wordsworth, Ann. (1891), 70. Dined with Twisleton at Trin.: wined with Payne at Bal.
1875. My First ‘Wine,’ 5. ‘Mr. Topthorne’s compliments, and will you wine with him to-night?’ Such were the words addressed to me by a scout in Hall.
1877. Blackmore, Cripps, xxxiii. He had dined and wined, once or twice, in a not ignoble college.
3. trans. To entertain to wine: usually in the jingling phr. dine and wine. colloq.
1862. Illustr. Lond. News, 5 July, 18/2. An esteemed friend … who had just been admitted to the Bar … and … ‘wined’ his friends on the night of his call.
1867. Standard, 29 April. He has dined and wined everybody who has had anything to do with his success.
1916. Times, 13 Oct., 4/3. He was motored and wined and dined through the conquered country under the watchful chaperonage of German officers.
