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Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason. A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1. He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunishe…

With pleasure; joyfully; cheerfully; eagerly. The common people heard him gladly. Mark xii. 37.

State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness. They . . . did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart. Acts ii. 46.

Pleased; joyful; cheerful.

assion or suffering; the anniversary of the crucifixion. -- Good humor, or Good-humor, a cheerful or pleasant temper or state of mind. -- Good nature, or Good-nature, habitual kindness or mildness of temper or disposition; amiability; state of being in good humor. The good nature and generosity which belonged to his…

Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.

With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner.

Merry; cheerful; lively. [Scot.]

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

Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.

Like a home or a home circle. Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life. E. E. Hale.

Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness. [R.]

Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Rural sports and jocund strains. Prior. -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.

Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport. Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned. Dryden. In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble Joy. Pope. To laugh at, to make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride. No wit to flatter left…

olutions. -- Light of foot. (a) Having a light step. (b) Fleet. -- Light of heart, gay, cheerful. -- Light oil (Chem.), the oily product, lighter than water, forming the chief part of the first distillate of coal tar, and consisting largely of benzene and toluene. -- Light sails (Naut.), all the sails above the top…

Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry. -- Light"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Light"-heart"ed*ness, n.

Without deep impression. The soft ideas of the cheerful note, Lightly received, were easily forgot. Prior.

To sing cheerfully. [Scot.]

the key tone are major. Major keys and intervals, as distinguished from minors, are more cheerful. -- Major term (Logic), that term of a syllogism which forms the predicate of the conclusion. -- Major third (Mus.), a third of two steps.

Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy. Is any merry Jas. v. 13.