CAROL

Definitions

1. 1. A round dance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. 2. A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. The costly feast, the carol, and the dance. Dryden It was the carol of a bird. Byron.
3. 3. A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol. Heard a carol, mournful, holy. Tennyson. In the darkness sing your carol of high praise. Keble.
4. 4. Joyful music, as of a song. I heard the bells on Christmans Day Their old, familiar carol play. Longfellow.