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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



... their flocks in general culture, and the incumbents of Haworth had been noted for their eccentricities for generations. Many of them attended the horse-racings and the games of football which were played on Sunday afternoons, and took as deep a part as any of the flock in the drunken carouse which always followed a funeral. Mr. Bronte was a very different man from his predecessors, but was many years in subduing his congregation to an even nominal observance of common moralities. He was, however, a man of high spirit and imperious ...
— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold

... carouse occurred upon shore, and in the quarters of his majesty, whose "treat" it was. The mate, with a boat, had gone down the river to have a good view of the anchored enemy and become perfectly acquainted with her position, with the object ...
— Ran Away to Sea • Mayne Reid

... does not look like an habitual toper. His English acquaintances in Italy were, he said in derision, all milksops. On the rare occasion of any of his former friends visiting him, he would urge them to have a carouse with him, but they had grown wiser. He used to say that little Tommy Moore was the only man he knew who stuck to the bottle and put him on his mettle, adding, "But he is a native of the damp isle, where ...
— Stories of Authors, British and American • Edwin Watts Chubb

... sees, Whose fickle fancy suits such times as these, One that says Amen to every factious prayer, From Hugh Peters' pulpit to St Peter's chair; One that doth defy the Crozier and the Crown, But yet can house with blades that carouse, Whilst pottle pots tumble down, derry down, One that can comply with surplice and with cloak, Yet for his end can independ ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay

... having been witness of their merrymaking, we have taken great pleasure and satisfaction therein.' You may guess, then, that in one way and another the King and his seneschals accumulated good store of wine by the end of the festival, when they shared it among the populace in a great carouse; nor were they held too strictly to account for the justice of particular fines by ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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