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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Wine

/wīn/ · IPA /waɪn/
01 n. The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) a…
  1. 1.
    The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.
    “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.” — Prov. xx. 1.
    “Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
  3. 3.
    The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
    “Noah awoke from his wine.” — Gen. ix. 24.
Phrases & compounds
Birch wine — See under Birch, Cape, etc.
Spirit of wine — See under Spirit.
To have drunk wine of ape — to be so drunk as to be foolish.
Wine acid — See Tartaric acid, under Tartaric.
Wine apple — a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor.
Wine bag — a wine skin.
Wine biscuit — a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine.
Wine cask — a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held, wine.
Wine cellar — a cellar adapted or used for storing wine.
Wine cooler — a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a stand for wine bottles, containing ice.
Wine fly — small two-winged fly of the genus Piophila, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other fermented liquors.
Wine grower — one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine.
Wine measure — the measure by which wines and other spirits are sold, smaller than beer measure.
Wine merchant — a merchant who deals in wines.
Wine of opium — a solution of opium in aromatized sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary laudanum; -- also Sydenham's laudanum.
Wine press — a machine or apparatus in which grapes are pressed to extract their juice.
Wine skin — a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various countries, for carrying wine.
Wine stone — a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See 1st Tartar, 1.
Wine vault — A vault where wine is stored.
Wine vinegar — vinegar made from wine.
Wine whey — whey made from milk coagulated by the use of wine.