n. [ Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus a rush. See 2d Junk, and cf. Juncate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food. [ 1913 Webster ]

How Faery Mab the junkets eat. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Victuals varied well in taste,
And other junkets. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A feast; an entertainment. [ 1913 Webster ]

A new jaunt or junket every night. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A trip made at the expense of an organization of which the traveller is an official, ostensibly to obtain information relevant to one's duties; especially, a trip made by a public official at government expense. The term is sometimes used opprobriously, from a belief that such trips are often taken for private pleasure, and are therefore a waste of public money; as, a congressional junket to a tropical country. [ PJC ]

v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost. [ 1913 Webster ]

Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing. ] To give entertainment to; to feast. [ 1913 Webster ]

The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A feast or entertainment; a revel. [ 1913 Webster ]

All those snug junketings and public gormandizings for which the ancient magistrates were equally famous with their modern successors. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

The apostle would have no reveling or junketing upon the altar. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or process of taking a junket{ 3 }. [ PJC ]

n. pl. Sweetmeats. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]