a salutation wishing health to a person, used in England in early times when presenting a cup of drink or when drinking to the person.

a festivity or revel with drinking of healths.

liquor for drinking and wishing health to others on festive occasions, esp. spiced ale, as on Christmas Eve and Twelfth-night.

Archaic . a song sung in wassailing.

to revel with drinking.

to drink to the health or success of; toast.

noun

bash * , blast * , blowout * , carousal , ceremony , festival , festivity , frolic , gala , hoopla , hullabaloo * , joviality , jubilee , merriment , merrymaking , party , revelry , shindig * , spree , wingding

verb

applaud , carouse , clink glasses , drink to , extol , feast , get drunk , honor , jubilate , let loose , live it up , make merry , party , pledge , raise one’s glass to , revel , salute , binge , carousal , celebration , drink , festival , festivity , frolic , merriment , revelry , salutation , toast