Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drinking \Drink"ing\, n.
   1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

   2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating
      liquors.

   3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.

   Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a
         compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking
         glass, drinking house, etc.

   {Drinking horn}, a drinking vessel made of a horn.