TOAST

to drink the health of any one; expre ion said to be derived from an episode at Bath in XVII. cent. T. was at that time dipped in wine to flavor it, and when one gallant drank his mistre ’s health in the water in which she was bathing, another swore ‘though he liked not the liquor, he would have the toast.’ Toasting is a custom of the greatest antiquity. It is believed that our ‘three times three’ was derived from the cla ical custom of to the Nine Muses,