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Cheerful; genial; as, a sunny disposition. My decayed fair A sunny look of his would soon repair. Shak.

Anything which has a warming and cheering influence like that of the rays of the sun; warmth; illumination; brightness. That man that sits within a monarch's heart, And ripens in the sunshine of his favor. Shak.

Beaming with good spirits; cheerful. "Her sunshiny face." Spenser.

rivers in spring; immigration swells the population. [The Church] swells her high, heart-cheering tone. Keble.

Prolific; productive. Teeming buds and cheerful appear. Dryden.

A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger. [Colloq. U.S.]

eer trail. They traveled in the bed of the brook, leaving no dangerous trail. Cooper. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! Shak.

ning; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree. " And trimmed the cheerful lamp." Byron.

Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] "With full trouble cheer." Chaucer.

Uncareful Uncelestial Unceremonious Unchallengeable Unchangeable Unchary Unchastisable Uncheerful

To relieve from sadness; to cheer. [R.] Whitlock.

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity. Sir W. Scott.

To salute with kindness, as a newcomer; to receive and entertain hospitably and cheerfully; as, to welcome a visitor; to welcome a new idea. "I welcome you to land." Addison. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long. Milton.

here a cloth and wipe away the wet. Chaucer. Now the sun, with more effectual beams, Had cheered the face of earth, and dried the wet From drooping plant. Milton.

In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully. Chaucer. The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it. Addison.

Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted. Misled by ill example, and a winsome nature. Jeffrey.

Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news. [R.] Shak. The sir growing more winterly in the month of April. Camden.

d, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. J. Ledyard.