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Carouse   /kərˈaʊz/   Listen
noun
Carouse  n.  
1.
A large draught of liquor. (Obs.) "A full carouse of sack." "Drink carouses to the next day's fate."
2.
A drinking match; a carousal. "The early feast and late carouse."


verb
Carouse  v. t.  To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. (Archaic) "Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape." "Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love."


Carouse  v. i.  (past & past part. caroused; pres. part. carousing)  To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels. "He had been aboard, carousing to his mates."





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"Carouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... godlessness, had desecrated the sacrificial vessels by using them for his drunken carouse, and therein had done just what we do when we take the powers of heart and mind and will, which are meant to be filled with affections, thoughts, and purposes, that are 'an odour of a sweet smell, well-pleasing to God,' and desecrate them ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren
... shaking and dim-eyed, "it's going on to midnight. We can't carouse like this. But land! it is uplifting to have a talk when you ought to be sleeping. Well, the old doctor bought the Point just then and bought Twombley a new gun. Folks as couldn't earn their keep proper naturally ...
— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock
... home the long-dreaded Civil War had at last broken out. But the Civil War that broke out in the soul of the young shepherd lad, the struggle between good and evil when he saw his Puritan cousin tempting other people to drink and carouse, was to him a more momentous event than all the outward battles that were raging. His Journal hardly mentions the rival armies of King and Parliament that were marching through the land. Yet in reading of his early struggles in his own spirit, we must always keep in ...
— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin
... at dusk our Mess carouse, With catches strong and brave, The mules their tuneful hearts arouse, And answer stave for stave. 'Dumb nature' breaks in festive noise, Remembering in this East The mystic bond which knits the joys ...
— The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad • Edward John Thompson
... third day, after a very severe night's carouse on bust-head whiskey, the Pennsylvanian appeared at the breakfast table, looking sadly the worse for wear, and having an awful headache. The landlady having previously removed the only looking glass in the tavern—one hanging in the barroom—said to the beast ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various


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