Wīne, n.

n. [A-S., O. Sax., O. Fries., & O. H. Ger. wīn, L. Ger. wien, Icel. & Sw. vin, Dan. viin, Goth. vin, D. wijn, N. H. Ger. wein; Lat. vinum, Gr. οἶνος, Æolic Gr. Foîvos; W. gwin, Ir. & Gael. fíon, Slav. vino.]

1Sense 1. The fermented juice of grapes; a beverage prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and allowing it to ferment.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Prov. xx. 1.

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. Milton.

2Sense 2. Hence, a liquor or beverage resembling that prepared from grapes, yielded by other kinds of fruit; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine.

3Sense 3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.

Noah awoke from his wine. Gen. ix. 24.

Spirit of wine, alcohol. See SPIRIT.