Quaff

(kwăf), v. t. [imp. & p. p. QUAFFED (kwăft); p. pr. & vb. n. QUAFFING.] [Fr. coiffer, to cap or hood, to coif, to intoxicate, make tipsy; se coiffer, to get intoxicated or tipsy, from coiffe, a hood. Cf. Sw. quäfva, to suffocate, immerse. See COIF.] To drink down; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts. He quaffs the muscadel. Shak. They, in communion sweet, Quaff immortality and joy. Milton.

To drink largely or luxuriously. Twelve days the gods their solemn revels keep, And quaff with blameless Ethiopia in the deep. Dryden.