Drink″ing, n. 1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
☞ Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking glass, drinking house, etc.
Drinking horn, a drinking vessel made of a horn.