Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Revel

Revel , noun

(Architecture) See Reveal. [Rare]

Revel , noun

[Old French 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.
Some men ruin... their bodies by incessant revels. — Rambler
Collocations (1)
Master of the revels or Revel master , Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.

Revel , intransitive verb

[Old French reveler to revolt, rebel, make merry, from Latin rebellare. See Rebel.]

1.
To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry. — Shakespeare
2.
To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
Where joy most revels. — Shakespeare

Revel , transitive verb

[Latin revellere; re- + vellere to pluck, pull.]

To draw back; to retract. [Obsolete] — Harvey