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wassail salutation used when presenting drink to a guest or drinking his health XIII (wæs hæil, wassayl, -ail; after XIV only hist. and dial.); liquor for drinking healths; carousal XVII. — ON. ves heill ‘be in good health’ (see HALE1).

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