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countable and uncountable, plural wines
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%. quotations examples
And David's Lips are lock't; but in divineHigh piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the RoseThat yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.
1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2
In Europe then we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking either wine or cider or beer.
1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 156
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV. examples
(countable) A serving of wine. examples
(uncountable) The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple. examples
third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined
(transitive) To entertain (someone) with wine. quotations examples
Neither Major Wadhams nor I is accustomed to being wined and dined by perfect strangers who do not even present themselves, but leave servants to do the honors, consequently to both of us our present situation smacks of romance and adventure;
1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159
(intransitive) To drink wine. quotations examples
I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.
1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker
uncountable
(Britain dialect) Wind. quotations examples
Vor voices rawze upon tha wine
1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century
Aw how sholl I tell o’m—vor âll pirty maidens / When I pass’d ’em look’d back—ther smill rawze on tha wine.
1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire
(dance, intransitive) To perform a Jamaican dance, such as the Dutty Wine. quotations examples
Even when there are positive comments, as in the responses to “white boy wines to dancehall,” the origin of the white boy's ability to dance is attributed to skills derived from others: […] .
2010, Andoni Alonso, Pedro Oiarzabal, editors, Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics, and Community, University of Nevada Press