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her person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.

Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the home or family. Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness. Cowper.

ll these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft. Foxe. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. Gray.

Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy. Shak.

A cheer; a shout of joy, etc. Hurrah's nest, state of utmost confusion. [Colloq. U.S.] A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen. Mrs. Stowe.

A word used as a shout of joy, triumph, applause, encouragement, or welcome. Hurrah! hurrah! for Ivry and Henry of Navarre. Macaulay.

A word used as a shout of joy, exultation, approbation, or encouragement.

ided over nuptial solemnities. Till Hymen brought his love-delighted hour, There dwelt no joy in Eden's rosy bower. Campbell.

ing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.

rom a fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years (or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.

is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed inn the enjoyments of this. Atterbury.

Empery. [Archaic] Joye.

t; meaning; significance. [Obs.] The wisest beholder could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow. Shak.

Of actions for recovering or reducing to possession or enjoyment a specific object, as in the enforcement of maritime liens against a vessel, which is made the defendant by a sort of personification. Most actions for the specific recovery of property in English and American law are in the nature of actions in personam…

Native; inherent; innate. Joy and hope are emotions indigenous to the human mind. I. Taylor.

e of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contenBeattie.

To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession. But the meek shall inherit the earth. Ps. xxxvii. 11. To bury so much gold under a tree, And never after to inherit it. Shak.

To disquiet. [Obs.] Joye.

Unquietness. [Obs.] Joye.