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Fild-ale, or Filk-ale

Fild-ale, or Filk-ale [fr. fillen, sax., to fill, and ale], an ale-feast. A term applied to an extortionate practice of...

Gaudy [fr. gaudium, Lat.], a feast, a festival, a day of plenty, Ibid.

The passover the feast of Easter

Holiday, or Holyday, a feast day with cessation from labour, as by 5 & 6

Martinmas, the feast of St. Martin of Tours, on the 11th November; sometimes

Michaelmas, the feast of the Archangel Michael, celebrated on the 29th of September,

which is on the 24th day of June, and the feast of St. John the Baptist, a festival first mentioned by

Octave, the eighth day after any feast, inclusive.

Pentecostals, pious oblations made at the feast of Pentecost by parishioners to their priests; and sometimes by

Rudmas-day [fr. rode, Sax., cross, and mass-day], the feast of the Holy Cross. There are two of these feats: