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The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton.

One who takes a repast. [Obs.]

Food; entertainment. [Obs.] Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.

Bygone. [Obs.] Shak.

A light repast between meals; a lunch. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries. A collation of wine and sweetmeats. Whiston. Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another know…

The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast.

ble provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement. Theatrical entertai…

s every night went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar. Cavendish.

A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.

A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner.

appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the acas, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal. What strange fish Hath made his meal on thee Shak.

A rest at noon; a repast at noon.

table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).

Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.

to regain; to repossess. [Obs.] When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well. Spenser.

Refreshment after hunger or fatique; a repast; a lunch. [His] feeble spirit inly felt refection. Spenser. Those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods. Curran.

A sumptuous repast; a banquet. Johnson. Cowper. Two baked custards were produced as additions to the regale. E. E. Hale.

To relieve by a pause or interval of rest. "To respite his day labor with repast." Milton.

A slight, hasty repast. [Colloq.]