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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.

d and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope.

Merry; cheerful; lively. [Scot.]

A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. Milton Heath cock (Zoöl.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). -- Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (T. decumbens)…

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.

kindness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites. To where you taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. Goldsmith.

A cheer; a shout of joy, etc. Hurrah's nest, state of utmost confusion. [Colloq. U.S.] A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen. Mrs. Stowe.

A shout of huzza; a cheer; a hurrah. They made a great huzza or shout. Evelyn.

To make drunk; to intoxicate. The cups That cheer but not inebriate. Cowper.

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

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

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

Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. "Inhospitable wastes." Blair. -- In*hos"pi*ta*ble*mess, n. -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv.

Animating; cheering; moving; exhilarating; as, an inspiring or scene.