Dine v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dined p. pr. & vb. n. Dining.]  To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.
    Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep.   --Shak.
 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.