wassail

A salutation or toast given in drinking someone’s health or as an expression of goodwill at a festivity.

The drink used in such toasting, commonly ale or wine spiced with roasted apples and sugar.

A festivity characterized by much drinking.

To drink to the health of; toast.

To engage in or drink a wassail.

To drink to the health or prosperity of: as, to wassail the apple (an old custom on Christmas eve).

To drink healths; carouse.

The salutation, toast, or form of words in which healths were formerly pledged in drinking, equivalent to ‘health,’ or ‘your good health,’ now in use.

A festive occasion or meeting where drinking and pledging of healths are indulged in; festivities; a drinking-bout; a carouse.