Revel /(?)/

Rev·el

Revel

n.
  1. See Reveal. (Arch.) [R.]

Revel

n.
  1. A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
    This day in mirth and revel to dispend.
    Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels.
    — Rambler.

Phrases & Compounds

Master of the revels
Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.

Revel

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Reveled; p. pr. & vb. n. Reveling

  1. To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.
  2. To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.

Revel

v. t.
  1. To draw back; to retract. [Obs.]