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A wake in England is a meeting avowedly for merriment; in Ireland it is a nocturnal meeting avowedly for the purpose of watching and bewailing the dead; but, in reality, for gossiping and debauchery. Shebean-house, a hedge alehouse. Shebcan properly means weak small-beer, taplash. At the coronation of one of our monarchs, the king complained of the confusion which happened in the procession.
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