Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Genesis 43:16). It was the custom in Egypt to dine at noon. But it is probable that the Egyptians took their principal meal in the evening, as was the general custom in the East (Luke 14:12).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. i.) To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.

2. (v. t.) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.

3. (v. t.) To dine upon; to have to eat.