Reverse Dictionary: FEAST

ADJECTIVES
► CONVIVAL belonging to a feast → 1658 obs.
► EPULARY having to do with a feast or banquet → 1678 
► EPULOUS feasting to excess; full of banqueting → 1692 obs.
► FEASTEN made for a feast → 1891 
► FEASTLY festive, fond of feasting, jolly → 1385 obs.
► JUNKETING that holds or attends feasts, parties, etc.; convivial, sociable → 1653 obs.

ADVERBS
► FEASTLY as men do at a feast; merrily → 1250 obs.

NOUNS
► BELLY-CHEER a feasting, gluttony, luxurious eating → 1549 obs.
► BELLY-RIVE a great feast; a social gathering → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BENDER a riotous feast; often lasting several days and including random acts of excess, violence, etc. → 1827 US
► BIRLING a feast, a carousal; a drinking-match in which the drink is clubbed for → 1819 Sc. 
► BLAW-OUT ► BLOW-OUT a feast, entertainment; a good meal; a large meal → 1821 Sc. 
► BLOW-UP a dinner, supper, or other entertainment for which an abundant supply of food and drink is provided or at which it is consumed; a feast → 1807 chiefly US
► BONAILLIE ► BONALLY farewell; good-speed; a farewell feast → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BREAKINGS the remains of a feast, broken meats → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CHEERING entertainment, feasting; a feast → 1443 obs.
► COMESSATION a frolic and jovial meeting to eat, drink, and make good cheer; feasting, banqueting, revelling → 1380 obs.
► CONVIVE a feast, a banquet → 1483 obs.
► COSHERY feasting → 1582 Ireland
► EATING MATCH a feast → M19 W. Indies sl.
► FAIRUCH a feast, a ‘tuck-in’ → 1936 Sc.
► FARM food, provision; hence, a banquet, a feast → 900 obs.
► FEED a meal; a sumptuous meal; a feast; a full meal → 1808 
► FEMLANS the remains of a feast → 1770 Sc. obs.
► FESTICAL a feast → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALRAVITCHING riotous living, feasting; a noisy merrymaking → 1820 Sc.
► GAUDY ► GAWDY a grand feast or entertainment; an annual dinner in commemoration of some event in the history of a college → 1651 
► GREAT DAY a feast day of great importance → 1812
► JUNKERY a banquet, a feast → 1425 obs.
► JUNKET a feast, a banquet; a festive gathering or celebration → 1500
► JUNKETING 1. a feasting, banqueting, or merrymaking → 1555
2. a feast, banquet, or other festive gathering → 1577
► MANGERY a banquet; a ceremonial feast; a series of festivities → 1300 obs.
► MERRY-MEAL a feast held to celebrate the birth of a child → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MERRY-MEAT a feast held to celebrate the birth of a child → 1824 Sc.
► NOSH-UP a feast; a meal → 1958 sl.
► OBSONATION a feasting → 1623 obs.
► PRIMIFESTE a first feast → 1551 obs.
► RANDY-BOOZE n. a feast, an uproarious holiday → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► REVEL a parish feast; a wake → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RUSH a feast, a party → 1788 Eng. dial. obs.
► SPREAD a banquet a feast, a large meal laid out on a table → 1822 
► SPREADATION a banquet. a feast, a lavish meal → 1780 obs.
► TIDE an annual feast or festivity; a fair → 1865 Eng. dial.
► TROIL a feast → 1886 Eng. dial.
► WAITING entertainment, feasting → 1300 obs.

NOUNS, PERSON
► BANQUETEER a guest at a banquet; a feaster; a reveller → 1821 
► BANQUETER a guest at a banquet; a feaster; a reveller → 1549 
► BIRLER a master of the revels, who presides at a feast → 1851 Eng. dial.
► CONVIVAL one who partakes of a feast; a guest → 1615 obs.
► CONVIVATOR a companion in feasting, a fellow carouser → 1656 obs.
► CONVIVE a person who feasts with others; a fellow banqueter; a table companion → 1651
► FEASTER the giver of a feast, a host, an entertainer → 1425 obs.
► FEAST-MAKER the giver of a feast → 1661 
► FEAST-MASTER one who presides at a feast → 1610 
► FEASTRESS a female feaster → 1836 
► HAINER the master who holds or sustains the expenses of the feast → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► JUNKETER orig., a person who holds or attends a feast, banquet or other festive gathering; a reveller; a party-goer → 1721 
► SMELL-FEAST a person who scents out where feasting is to be had; one who comes uninvited to share in a feast → 1519 
► SYMPOSIARCH the master of a feast → 1603 

VERBS
► BEGIN THE DAIS to take the chief seat, or preside at a feast → 1297 obs.
► BELLY-CHEER to feast luxuriously, revel; to indulge in food and drink → 1549 obs.
► CHEER to feast, to make merry → 1553 obs.
► CONVIVE to feast together → 1609 obs.
► COSHER to feast; to live at free quarters upon dependants or kinsmen → 1635 Ireland
► DELICIATE to take one’s pleasure; to enjoy oneself; to indulge in delicacies; to feast; to revel; to luxuriate → 1633 obs.
► EPICURIZE to play the epicure; to eat or feast daintily or luxuriously → 1634 obs.
► GALRAVIDGE ► GALRAVITCH to live riotously, to feast → 1793 Sc.
► GAMMOCK to go feasting and frolicking from place to place → 1876 Eng. dial.
► JUNKET to hold or attend a banquet or feast; to make merry, to celebrate, esp. with eating and drinking → 1607 obs.
► KILL THE FATTED CALF to prepare an elaborate feast in welcome or celebration → 1647 
► MAKE GLAD CHEER to feast, to make merry → 1330 
► MAKE GOOD CHEER to feast, to make merry → 1693 
► MAKE MERRY CHEER to feast, to make merry → 1487 
► OBLIGURATE to ‘spend all on the belly’; to ‘spend on belly-cheer’; surmised to mean: to spend time feasting → 1623 obs.
► OBLIGURE to banquet → 1623 obs.
► SMOUSE to feast, to eat up, consume, as a delicacy → 1775