transitive verb.
To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
transitive verb.
To dine upon; to have to eat.
intransitive verb.
To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
intransitive verb.
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.