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A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. How Faery Mab the junkets eat. Milton. Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. Chapman.

A feast or entertainment; a revel. All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors. W. Irving. The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar. South.

Sweetmeats. [Obs.]

The menhaded.

A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue.

from Shrink.

Lying on the bottom of a river or other water; sunk.

Having (such) a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.

Same as Dunker.

Separated from its trunk or stock. [Obs.]

The common sandpiper.

A young person; a stripling; a yonker. [Obs. or Colloq.] That same younker soon was overthrown. Spenser.

Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building.

Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.

Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper.

The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.

Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. Byron.

ivileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]