Dictionary entry

Revel (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Rev″el, n. [OF. revel rebellion, disorder, feast, sport. See Revel, v. i.] A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.

This day in mirth and revel to dispend. Chaucer.

Some men ruin... their bodies by incessant revels. Rambler.

Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.