Defn: To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; — sometimes
applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public
cost.
Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South.
JUNKET
Jun"ket, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.]
Defn: To give entertainment to; to feast. The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. Walpole.
JUNKETING
Jun"ket*ing, n.
Defn: A feast or entertainment; a revel.
All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the
ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors.
W. Irving.
The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar.
South.
JUNKETRIES
Jun"ket*ries, n. pl.
Defn: Sweetmeats. [Obs.]
JUNO
Ju"no, n.; pl. Junos. Etym: [L.]
1. (Rom. Myth.)
Defn: The sister and wife of Jupiter, the queen of heaven, and the
goddess who presided over marriage. She corresponds to the Greek
Hera.
Sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes. Shak.