REVEL

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

See Reveal. [R.]

2.
n.

A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. This day in mirth and revel to dispend. Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. Rambler. Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.

3.
v.

To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. Shak.

4.
v.

To move playfully; to indulge without restraint. "Where joy most revels." Shak.

5.
v.

To draw back; to retract. [Obs.] Harvey.

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