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Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.

Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety. Prior.

Gay; full of gayety; joyous.

The quality of being bonny; gayety [R.]

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

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.

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

To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. Shak.

To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self. Where light disports in ever mingling dyes. Pope. Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly. Byron.

of being festive; social joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd.

A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. Johnson.

One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.

A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth. He would be at his frolic once again. Roscommon.

In a frolicsome manner; with mirth and gayety. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive. Old England, who takes a frolicsome brain fever once every two or three years, for the benefit of her doctors. Sir W. Scott. -- Frol"ic*some*ly, adv. -- Frol"ic*some*ness, n.

Same as Gayety.

Excessive gayety; merriment. [Obs.] The mirth and galliardise of company. Sir. T. Browne.

Gayety. [Obs.] Gayton.