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An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.

e house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment. [Obs.] They him besought Of harbor and or ease as for hire penny. Chaucer.

An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.

Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part.

To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, he entertains generously.

Affording entertainment; pleasing; amusing; diverting. -- En`ter*tain"ing*ly, adv. -- En`ter*tain"ing*ness, n.

Treatment; reception; entertainment. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Any small entertainment between two greater ones. [R.]

Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare." Dryden.

A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. Enough is as good as a feast. Old Proverb. Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords. Dan. v. 1.

To make very happy; to delight. What a glorius entertainment and pleasure would fill and felicitate his spirit. I. Watts.

A festival. Fête champêtre ( Etym: [F.], a festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.

The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.

Music; minstrelsy; entertainment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter. [A grove] fair harbour that them seems. Spenser. For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden.

Shelter; entertainment.[R.] Where can I get me harborage for the night Tennyson.

having become very popular or acclaimed; -- said of entertainment performances; as, a hit record, a hit movie.

year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant. [Scot.]

or. -- To do the honors, to bestow honor, as on a guest; to act as host or hostess at an entertainment. "To do the honors and to give the word." Pope. -- To do one honor, to confer distinction upon one. -- To have the honor, to have the privilege or distinction. -- Word of honor, an engagement confirmed by a pledge…