carouse

• The story of Shakespeare's carouse, and his night passed under a crab-tree near Bidford, about six miles from Aldington, is well known. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• Just as these are about to withdraw for a carouse, Wisdom enters: Anima also reappears, “in most horrible wise, fouler than a fiend,” and presently gives birth to six of the Deadly Sins; whereupon she perceives what a transformation has befallen her, and Mind, Will, and Understanding learn that they are the cause of it. —  Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I.
• And yet here they could carouse, and lose themselves in swinish indulgence! —  My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
• When done there'll be a carouse, and I'll warrant ye all such a sup that the most romantic among ye'll never cast another pining thought in the direction o' your mother's milk Having delivered this preface, he divided the men into two gangs; one, under the boatswain, to attend to the rigging, clear the canvas of the ice, get the pumps and the capstans to work, and see all ready for getting sail on the schooner; the other, under the second mate, to get tackles aloft and break out the cargo, taking care to trim ship whilst so doing They fell to their several jobs with a will. —  The Frozen Pirate
• And when it was time for them rather to sleep than to carouse, they went to rest Pwyll, Prince of Dyved, came likewise to his country and dominions, and began to enquire of the nobles of the land, how his rule had been during the past year, compared with what it had been before. —  The Mabinogion Vol. 3 (of 3)

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