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urge on by making a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to cherup to. See Chirrup. He cherups brisk ear-erecting steed. Cowper.

To enter with alacrity and briskness; -- with to or into. [Obs.] "Shall we clap into it roundly, without . . . saying we are hoarse" Shak.

A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated. He who was, a little before, bedrid, . . . was now crank and lusty. Udall. If you strong electioners did not think you were among the elect, you would not be so crank about it. Mrs. Stowe.

Brisk; crackling; cheerful; lively. The snug, small room, and the crisp fire. Dickens.

Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. [Scot.] Burns.

To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. "Now the drum dubs." Beau. & Fl.

One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.

autiful. The gain thereof [is better] than fine gold. Prov. iii. 14. A cup of wine that's brisk and fine. Shak. Not only the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest scholars. Felton. To soothe the sick bed of so fine a being [Keats]. Leigh Hunt.

To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result. No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit, That once so fluttered, and that once so writ. Pope.

action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.

To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.

In a fresh manner; vigorously; newly, recently; brightly; briskly; coolly; as, freshly gathered; freshly painted; the wind blows freshly. Looks he as freshly as he did Shak.

Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Brisk; lively; frolicsome.

Gay; brisk; merry; galliard. Chaucer.

Gay; brisk; active. [Obs.]

A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

A light, brisk musical movement. Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jib. Shak.

Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.