\Jun"ket\, 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}.]
1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
         How Faery Mab the junkets eat.        -- Milton.
         Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. --
                                               Chapman.
2. A feast; an entertainment.
         A new jaunt or junket every night.    -- Thackeray.

\Jun"ket\, v. i.
To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes
applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the
public cost.
      Job's children junketed and feasted together often. --
                                               South.

\Jun"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Junketed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Junketing}.]
To give entertainment to; to feast.
      The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was
      in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. -- Walpole.