roist

English

Verb

roist (third-person singular simple present roists, present participle roisting, simple past and past participle roisted)

  1. (intransitive) To roister.
    • William Shakespeare
      I have a roisting challenge sent amongst
      The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks
      Will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for roist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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