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Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. Tatler. -- Bux"om*ly, adv.…

t; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.

od or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. Cowper.

A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. "a gay calamanco waistcoat." Tatler.

nt; to call the roll of a military company. No parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear. Gay.

Gay or rich clothing. My heart groans beneath the gay caparison. Smollett.

To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.

wife. Matt. xix. 10. And when a lady's in the case. You know all other things give place. Gay. You think this madness but a common case. Pope. I am in case to justle a constable, Shak.

A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.

Waxen; like wax. [Obs.] Gayton.

ler of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay.

reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses. The gay, social sense, by decency chastised. Thomson.

Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. Shak.

Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.

Gay; cheerful. [Obs.] Shak.

Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.

siasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits. Rogers.

e cruel corporal whispered in my ear, Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear. Gay. Clear breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- Clear days (Law.), days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days. -- Clear stuff, boards, planks,…

To set erect; to turn up. Our Lightfoot barks, and cocks his ears. Gay. Dick would cock his nose in scorn. Swift.

Wrinkled; puckered. Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain. Gay.