Dine /(?)/

Dine

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Dined; p. pr. & vb. n. Dining

  1. To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
    Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.

Phrases & Compounds
To dine with Duke Humphrey
to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.

Dine

v. t.
  1. To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.
    A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men.
  2. To dine upon; to have to eat. [Obs.]