wassail

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A toast to health, usually on a festive occasion.
2. isim The beverage served during a wassail, especially one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples, etc.

   “Add ſugar, nutmeg and ginger, / VVith ſtore of ale too; / And thus ye muſt doe / To make the vvaſſaile a ſvvinger.”

3. isim Revelry.

   “In merry wassail he […] peals his loud song.”

4. isim A festive or drinking song or glee.

   “Have you done your wassail? 'Tis a handsome, drowsy ditty, I'll assure you.”

5. fiil To toast, to drink to the health of another.

   “The next morning he much regretted the gusto with which he had wassailed the night before.”

6. fiil To drink wassail.
7. fiil To go from house to house at Christmastime, singing carols.

   “Schoolchildren around the globe have gleefully sung Torches at Christmastime for half a century. Many of those in Birmingham have wassailed the carol at the front door of a cosy Victorian house in Moseley, unaware that behind that front door lives its composer.”