wine v.
to give or attend a party where wine is drunk; thus wine and dine, to entertain others; also wining n.
Correspondence (1888) I 178: Newton has now quite shut himself up, and never goes out to wine. | letter 23 July||
Alma Mater I 114: I had the honor of wining with no less a personage than a fellow of the college. | ||
Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) I 567: I am going to wine with Smalls to-night, to meet a few nice, quiet, hard-working men. | ||
Tom Brown at Oxford (1880) 99: Will you come and wine with me next Thursday? | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 30 Oct. 9/2: On him, in vain, they pressed champagne — / For David never ‘wined’. |