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Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.

Gay; full of gayety; joyous.

Cheery; gay; merry. The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott. -- Blithe"some*ly, adv. -- Blithe"some*ness, n.

A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray.

ndage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress. This arm shall be a bolster for thy head. Gay.

or for amusement. Full soon by bonfire and by bell, We learnt our liege was passing well. Gay.

Gayly; handsomely.

The quality of being bonny; gayety [R.]

utiful; pretty; attractively lively and graceful. Till bonny Susan sped across the plain. Gay. Far from the bonnie banks of Ayr. Burns.

Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. A boon companion, loving his bottle. Arbuthnot.

a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through. "What bustling crowds I bored." Gay.

A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.

To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch. Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow. Sir W. Scott.

and; a stenographer. He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. Gayton.

Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily. And [she] decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her. Judith. x. 4.

In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.

as brocade, with gold and silver, or with raised flowers, etc. Brocaded flowers o'er the gay mantua shine. Gay.

A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy. The leading bucks of the day. Thackeray.

head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering. [Obs.] So fell this buffle-headed giant. Gayton.