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Gay; brisk; merry; galliard. Chaucer.

Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. Shak. Gladness of the gamesome crowd. Byron. -- Game"some*ly, adv. -- Game"some*ness, n.

A merry, frolicsome person. [Obs.] Shak.

Gay; merry; festal. Tennyson. Let's have one other gaudy night. Shak.

Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry. Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. Pope. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed. Gray.

e state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.

Merry; gay; joyous. Shak.

Merry; joyous; gleeful.

To make merry. [Obs.] Shak.

Heath. [Prov. Eng.] Audrey. As merry as a grig Etym: [etymology uncertain], a saying supposed by some to be a corruption of "As merry as a Greek; " by others, to be an allusion to the cricket.

hes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy. Percy Smith. As dumb harlequin is exhibited in our theaters. Johnson. Harlequin bat (Zoöl.), an Indian bat (Scotophilus ornatus), curiously variegated with white spots. -…

Merry; cheerful; lively. [Scot.]

Mirthful; noisy; merry.

Chaste; faithfuk; virtuous. Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. Shak.

A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.

A median process on the furculum, or merrythought, of many birds, where it is connected with the sternum.

Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn. [R.]

cast; a mold. [Obs.] And from the fire he took up his matter And in the ingot put it with merry cheer. Chaucer.

A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama.

A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Milton.