wassail
- n a punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples; especially at Christmas
- v celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
- v propose a toast to
- This potion the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen for its New Year's wassail.
- These knights do not curse and hold wassail; they do not devote themselves to the performance of high-flown absurdities in the interests of their ladies, brawl with one .
- Here's to dear old Yale She's so hearty and so hale, Drink her down, drink her down, Drink her down, down, down! Celebrated in song and story is Yale's interest in the wassail.