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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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15 words match “CAROUSE”

CAROUSE n. 4 definitions
A large draught of liguor. [Obs.] "A full carouse of sack." Sir J. Davies. Drink carouses to the next day's fate. Shak.
CAROUSER n.
One who carouses; a reveler.
BACCHANAL n.
hus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. "Tipsy bacchanals." Shak.
BIRL v.
To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse. [Obs. or Dial.] Skelton.
BOOZE n.
A carouse; a drinking. Sir W. Scott.
BOUSE v. 2 definitions
To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze.
BOWSE v. 2 definitions
To carouse; to bouse; to booze. De Quincey.
CAROUSAL n.
A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. The swains were preparing for a carousal. Sterne.
CAROUSING a.
That carouses; relating to a carouse.
CAROUSINGLY adv.
In the manner of a carouser.
DRINK v.
To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the Pope. And they drank, and were merry with him. Gem. xliii. 34. Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely. Thackeray. To drink to, to salute i…
ORGIES n.
Drunken revelry; a carouse. B. Jonson. Tennyson.
RACKET n. 2 definitions
A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]
REVEL v.
To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. Shak.
WASSAIL n. 2 definitions
An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse. "In merry wassail he . . . peals his loud song." Sir W. Scott. The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail. Shak. The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail. Prescott.