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Wassail

noun

A punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples; especially at Christmas.

verb

Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities. Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopie, racket, revel, whoop it up. "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"

Propose a toast to. Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, toast. "Let's drink to the New Year"

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... England, the village maidens go from door to door with a bowl of wassail, made of ale, roasted apples, squares of toast, nutmeg, and sugar. The bowl is elaborately decorated with evergreen and ribbons, and as they go ...

— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed

... wassail, most of the men went below at an early hour, leaving the deck to the steward and two of the men remaining on duty; the mate, with Baltimore and the Dane, engaging to relieve them at midnight. At that hour, ...

— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville

... on in the parlour waxed louder and wilder as the night wore on. There were unseen guests there, elate and inspiring, who sat with the revellers—phantoms who attend such wassail, and keep the ladle of the punch-bowl clinking, the tongue of the songster glib and tuneful, and the general mirth alive and furious. A few honest folk, with the gift of a second sight in such matters, discover their uncanny presence—leprous ...

— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... in the eyes of their Puritan neighbors, for were they not Episcopals, who had pancakes at Shrovetide and wassail at Christmas?—were dancing about their May-pole one summer evening, for they tried to make it May throughout the year. Some were masked like animals, and all were tricked with flowers and ribbons. Within ...

— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner

... crude Western town a few of the real sort could meet and make their own little quarter and talk about the big things, the lasting things! Everyone said yes, quite so; and they all tried to handle their wine like it was a rare old vintage. But you can't hold much wassail on the juice of the elderberry; it ain't the most jocund stuff the world ...

— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

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