Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JUNC'ATE, n. [It. giuncata, cream cheese; Fr. jonchée de crême, a kind of cream cheese served in a frail of green rushes, mind for that reason so called, or because made in a frail or basket of rushes; L. juncus, a rush.]

1. A cheese-cake; a kind of sweetmeat of curds and sugar. – Johnson.
2. Any kind of delicate food. – Milton.
3. A furtive or private entertainment. [It is now written junket.]