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wassail 1. (formerly) a toast or salutation made to a person at festivities 2. a festivity when much drinking takes place 3. alcoholic drink drunk at such a festivity, esp spiced beer or mulled wine 4. the singing of Christmas carols, going from house to house 5. Archaic a drinking song How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Again was the fire replenished, and again went the wassail round. ``drink wassail to the fair Rowena; for since her namesake introduced the word into England, has never been one more worthy of such a tribute. And each meeting meant a drink; and there was much to talk about; and more drinks; and songs to be sung; and pranks and antics to be performed, until the maggots of imagination began to crawl, and it all seemed great and wonderful to me, these lusty hard-bitten sea- rovers, of whom I made one, gathered in wassail on a coral strand. |
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