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A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. Shak.

a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show. As for triumphs, masks, feasts, and such shows. Bacon.

A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

es and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred. His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned. Milton. The worship of this image was advanced, and a solemn supplication observed everry year. Bp. Stillingfleet.

o celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers . . . Met from all parts to solemnize this feast. Milton.

in self-dispraise: And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. Wordsworth.

n idler sponges on his neighbor. E. Eggleston. The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers. L'Estrange.

A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast. [Colloq.]

silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose. And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. Prior.

The master of a feast.

A drinking together; a merry feast. T. Warton.

g) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine. John ii. 9. When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse. Gibbon.

A feasting at taverns. [Obs.] "The misrule of our tavernings." Bp. Hall.

Not fermented; unleavened; -- said of bread, loaves, etc. [Obs.] Pask and the feast of therf loaves. Wyclif.

one at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely. [R.] Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast Timeless, indecent. Pope.

nd English to their side. Shak. O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. Shak. This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. Ford.

A feast held by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.

and the like. -- Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; -- so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity. -- Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.

Unfit for a feast; hence, jaded; worn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael. Cowell. The marriage was celebrated and Canterbury, and in the utas of St. Hilary next ensuing she was crowned. Holinshed.