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Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic. "Follies and light merriment." Spenser. Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment. Milton.

The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.

and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive. They drank, and were merry with him. Gen. xliii. 34. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Shak.

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.

Mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival. [Written also merrimake.]

One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.

The act of making merry; conviviality; merriment; jollity. Wordsworth.

A meeting for mirth.

The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.

The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.

Having a face of a mulberry color, or blotched as if with mulberry stains.

See Sheepberry.

A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla. [Written also nisberry.]

Nearer. [Obs.] [Written also neer, ner.] Chaucer. Never the neer, never the nearer; no nearer. [Obs.]

A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.

A wandering about. [Obs.] Jonhson.

The herb Paris. See Herb Paris, under Herb.

fruit of the Nuttallia cerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to the Cherry tribe of Rosaceæ.

To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea.