car ous all (karouzal)

[ The swains were preparing for a carousal . Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vii. 43. cal dances and scenic representations. Before the crystal palace, where he dwells, The armed angels hold their carousels . carp1 (kärp), v. [ When he told hade his tale tomly [leisurely] to the ende, He enclinet the kyng, and carp it no more. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2448. Now we leven Joseph, and of the kyng carpen . Joseph of Arimathie , 1. 175. Hwen thu art on eise, carpe toward Ihesu and seie thise wordes. Old Eng. Homilies, 1st ser. (ed. Morris), p. 287. I will now carp of kings. Percy MS . 21. To talk; babble; chatter. In felaweschipe wel cowde sche lawghe and carpe . Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., L. 474. Kepe thi knyfe both clene & scherpe, And be not besy for to kerpe . Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 23. 3. To censure, cavil, or find fault, particularly without reason or petulantly: used a or followed by at. absolutely Other of your insolent retinue Shak ., Lear, i. 4. Do hourly carp and quarrel. No, not a tooth or nail to scratch And at my actions carp and catch. G. Herbert. II.t trans. 1. To utter; speak. With corage kene he carpes thes wordes. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1725. Then our king full of courage carped these words. Marvell , Lachrymæ Musarum (1650). 2. To blame; find fault with; chide. A royal carousal given by Charles the Fifth of France to the Emperor Charles the Fourth. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, I. 245. Dryden, Pref. to Albion and Albanius. Leaving out the warlike part of the carousals . 2. See carrousel, 2. carouse (ka-rouz', formerly ka-rous'), n. [Early mod. E. also carowse and garouse; bumper to one's health, orig. an adv., G. garaus, adv., quite out, all out, as substantive a finishing stroke (cf. allaus , E. all out , formerly used in the same way, of emptying a bumper), gar , quite, completely (= E. yare), + aus = E. out .] 1. A hearty drink or full draught of liquor: as, to quaff or drink carouse . And here with a carowse after a ble ing begins the feast. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 206. A full carouse of sack. Davies, State of Ireland. With my poniard will I stab my flesh, And quaff carouses to thee of my blood. Lust's Dominion , 1. 1. IMG:content-3168.png:[blocks in formation] "A health," quoth he, as if He had been aboard, carousing to his mates Shak., T. of the S., iii. 2. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 1. I said, O soul, make merry and carouse. Tennyson, Palace of Art. II.t trans. To drink up; drink to the bottom. He in that forest did death's cup carowse . After a storm. Having all day carous'd and banqueted. Mir. for Mags., p. 646. [Roderigo] To Des demon a hath to-night carous'd Potations pottle-deep. Shak ., Othello, ii. 3. Homer, to whom the Muses did carouse A great deep cup with heavenly nectar fill'd. Sir J. Davies, Dancing. =Syn. Revel , Carousal, Wa ail, Spree , Debauch , Satur- nalia , Orgy agree in expre ing times of exce in drinking; carousel, n. See carousal2 and carrousel . some of them include other sensual pleasures. They are in the order of strength and consequent reprobation imcarouser (ka-rou'zėr), n. plied. A revel is accompanied with some drunkenne , Formerly also garouser .] [ One who carouses; a Percy MS . Suspecting that Euphues would be carped of some curious Reader. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 214. My honest homely words were carp'd and censured. Dryden. carp1t (kärp), n. [ME.: see carp1 , v .] Speech; talk; conversation. When non wolde kepe hym with carp he cozed ful hyzе, Ande rimed hym ful richley, & ryzt hym to speke. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), L. 307.