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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.]

all postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties. [Written also klinket.]

latching.

A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament.

A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.

ttle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week. He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. Shak. Three women and a goose make a market. Old Saying.

Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable.

Quality of being marketable.

One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.

The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.

A market place. [Obs.] Drayton.

The male of the sparrow hawk.

A soldier armed with a musket.

See Mosquito.

A short musket.

Muskets, collectively.

A long, closely fitting cloak.

A kind of loose-fitting plaited jacket, having a loose belt.