Definition of wine

"wine" in the noun sense

1. wine, vino

fermented juice (of grapes especially)

2. wine, wine-colored, wine-coloured

a red as dark as red wine

"wine" in the verb sense

1. wine

drink wine

2. wine

treat to wine

"Our relatives in Italy wined and dined us for a week"

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Quotations for wine

Wine is an abomination. [ Ptah Hotep ]

Joy is the best of wine. [ George Eliot ]

Good wine needs no bush. [ Proverb ]

Wine washes off the dawb. [ Proverb ]

Wine shews what a man is. [ Proverb ]

Good wine needs no brandy. [ Amer. Proverb ]

When wine sink swords swim. [ Proverb ]

Wine is a cunning wrestler. [ Plautus ]

Wine counsels seldom prosper. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love is the wine of existence. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Spilt wine is worse than water. [ Proverb ]

Friendship is the wine of life. [ E. Young ]

Wine ever pays for his lodging. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Sweet wine yields sour vinegar. [ German Proverb ]

He cries wine and sells vinegar. [ Proverb ]

Wine turns a man inside outwards. [ Proverb ]

You cannot know wine by the cask. [ Proverb ]

Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine. [ Ben Jonson ]

The oil and wine of merry meeting. [ Washington Irving ]

Wine and youth are fire upon fire. [ Fielding ]

Wine has drowned more than the sea. [ Publius Syrus ]

You cannot know wine by the barrel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Milk says to wine, Welcome, friend. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The counsels that are given in wine,
Will do no good to you or thine. [ Proverb ]

When the wine is in, the wit is out. [ Proverb ]

Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine. [ Italian Proverb ]

Good wine is its own recommendation. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Every tub smells of the wine it holds. [ Proverb ]

Corroding cares are dispelled by wine. [ After Horace ]

Wine invents nothing; it only tattles. [ Schiller ]

No relying on wine, women and fortune. [ Proverb ]

Sour grapes can never make sweet wine. [ Proverb ]

Take heed of the vinegar of sweet wine. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Commend not your wife, wine, nor house. [ Proverb ]

The ass that carries wine drinks water. [ Proverb ]

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. [ Proverb ]

Wine in the hogshead quenches no thirst. [ Proverb ]

Play, women, and wine undo men laughing. [ Proverb ]

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Women and wine make men out of their wits. [ Proverb ]

Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You gorge down wine as a swine swills whey. [ Proverb ]

The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar. [ Proverb ]

Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. [ Thomas Fuller ]

The tears of penitents are the wine of angels. [ St. Bernard ]

The love of a woman, and a bottle of wine,
Are sweet for a season, but last a short time. [ Proverb ]

Let me play the fool
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come;
And let my liver rather heat with wine,
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. [ William Shakespeare ]

The wine in the bottle doth not quench thirst. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Old wine and an old friend are good provisions. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To speak of a usurer at the table mars the wine. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He does not deserve wine who drinks it as water. [ Bodenstedt ]

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Wine neither keeps secrets, nor fulfils promises. [ Proverb ]

When the wine is run out you would stop the leak. [ Proverb ]

In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the heart. [ German Proverb ]

You drink vinegar when you have wine at your elbow. [ Proverb ]

Give a poor man sixpence, and not a bottle of wine. [ Proverb ]

Wine maketh a man act like an ass in a rich pasture. [ Zahir Ad-din ]

Passion makes a man a beast, but wine makes him worse. [ Proverb ]

Drink wine in winter for cold, and in summer for heat. [ Proverb ]

Water breeds frogs in the belly; but wine kills worms. [ Proverb ]

Wine is a turncoat: first a friend, and then an enemy. [ Fielding ]

Wine that costs nothing is digested before it be drunk. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No matter what the vessel is so the wine in it be good. [ Proverb ]

Flow, wine! smile, woman! and the universe is consoled! [ Beranger ]

Learning in an ill man, is good wine in a musty bottle. [ Proverb ]

Drinking of wine maketh men to act like so many furies. [ N. Morton ]

Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness. [ Lady Rachel Russell ]

Wine colors the face, to prevent the appearance of modesty. [ A. de Musset ]

Drink wine, and have the gout, drink none, and have it too. [ Proverb ]

Wine is the vintner's, but the goodness of it the drawer's. [ Proverb ]

Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh, they make men pine. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage. [ Hall ]

'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious,
For tea +{Drink, Drunkenness} and coffee leave us much more serious. [ Byron ]

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them. [ George Eliot ]

Wine makes a poor man rich in imagination, a rich man poor in reality. [ Edward Parsons Day ]

Bread with eyes, cheese without eyes, and wine that leaps up to the eyes. [ Proverb ]

A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latinbred woman seldom end well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both the holder and the beholder. [ Zimmermann ]

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor. [ Sterne ]

Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure. [ Young ]

Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, old books to read. [ Alonzo of Arragon ]

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine: do not become intoxicated. [ A. de Musset ]

Travel improves superior wine and spoils the poor; it is the same with the brain.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged. [ J. G. Saxe ]

This is the great fault in wine; it first trips up the feet, it is a cunning wrestler. [ Plautus ]

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. [ Haliburton ]

Wine often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. [ Addison ]

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. [ Bacon ]

When asked what kind of wine he liked to drink he replied, That which belongs to another. [ Diogenes Laertius ]

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. [ Goldsmith ]

In water thou canst see thine own face, in wine thou canst see into the heart of another. [ Proverb ]

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle. [ Caesar ]

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee - devil! [ William Shakespeare ]

As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred. [ Proverb ]

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The use of wine must inevitably be a steppingstone to that of stronger drinks and to intemperance. [ J. C Holbrook, D.D ]

That is a treacherous friend against whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. [ Bovee ]

Wine, though it possesses good qualities, was forbidden by the prophet, because it attacked reason. [ Hais-Bais ]

To seek these things is lost labor: geese in an oil-pot, fat hogs among Jews, and wine in a fishingnet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Mild May's eldest child, the coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, the murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. [ Keats ]

Never add artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice until thou findest that time hath decayed thy natural heat. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

It (wine) produces most of the bad effects of ardent spirits, as misused in our country, and is perhaps more insidious. [ Horatio Greenough, the sculptor, of Florence ]

In my interview with the king of the French, he stated expressly that the drunkenness of France was occasioned by wine. [ Hon. E. C. Delavan ]

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. [ Shenstone ]

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. [ Pliny ]

Behold the morning! Rise up, O youth, and quickly fill thyself with this rosy wine sparkling from the crystal cup of the dawn! [ Omar Khayam ]

Wine leads to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent. [ Homer ]

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. [ Charles Dickens ]

Success resembles a generous wine which begins by exciting the intellectual faculties, and ends by plunging us into a stupid intoxication. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. [ Sirach ]

Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirit of The Arab; a couplet is equal to a bottle, and a rose to a dram, without the evil effects of either. [ Layard ]

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen. [ Count De Montalembert ]

Drinking of wine brings poverty, shame, quarrels; leads to calumnious talk, unchastity, murder, and the loss of freedom, of honor, of understanding. [ Tosafot ]

Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all. [ Lord Bacon ]

Wine maketh the hand quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things. [ Pliny ]

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart. [ Horace Mann ]

There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it. [ Plutarch ]

The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. [ Bible ]

It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. [ E. H. Chapin, D.D ]

Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts. [ Whipple ]

From extensive acquaintance with many lands, I unhesitatingly affirm that everywhere God has provided pure water for man, and that the wines drunk are often miserable and dirty. I have found water everywhere that I have traveled, in China and India, Palestine and Egypt, - and everywhere water has been my beverage. [ Thomas Cook, the Tourist ]

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects. [ Johnson ]

Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counterproof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology. [ Abraham Coles ]

One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours: probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for, if I do not, I must think him a beast. [ Chesterfield ]

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

wine in Scrabble®

The word wine is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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wine in Words With Friends™

The word wine is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Word Growth involving wine

Shorter words in wine

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Longer words containing wine

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