to drink to (a person). Hence, to salute (any one) by drinking; to invite him to drink by drinking first; to drink in his honour, wishing him health…

transitive. To drink with or to (a person) as a gesture of fidelity, goodwill, etc.: †(a) to give assurance or promise of friendship or allegiance…

transitive. To drink to, pledge; also causal, to make, or give, to drink.

= brince, v.

To drink a bumper to (any one), to drink health or success to.

figurative. Applied to the use of the liquor in which a toast is drunk. Obsolete.

transitive. To name when a toast is drunk; to drink in honour of (a person or thing).

transitive. To toast; to drink the health of. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To toast (a person, etc.) with a bumper.

intransitive. colloquial. to look towards (a person): to drink to a person's health. Chiefly as a toast, in I look towards you, here's looking toward…

transitive. To wish (good health, etc.) to a person as a toast; to propose (a toast). Also intransitive.

transitive. To drink the health of.

A Chinese drinking-toast, a call to drain one's glass. Also as v. intransitive and transitive, to drink (as) a toast.