Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult. 2. (n.) Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. 3. (n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object. 4. (v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess. 5. (v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3. 6. (v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.
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