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mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment. Chaucer. All now was turned to jollity and game. Milton. He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel only for him, who was only worthy to enter into it. Sir P. Sidney.

Boisterous mirth; merriment; jollity. Goldsmith.

Jollity. [Obs.] Spenser.

Jollity; noisy mirth. Chaucer.

Jollity. [Obs.] Spenser.

Jollity; merriment. [Obs.] Spenser.

Gay; merry; joyous; jolly; mirth-inspiring; hilarious; characterized by mirth or jollity; as, a jovial youth; a jovial company; a jovial poem. Be bright and jovial among your guests. Shak. His odes are some of them panegyrical, others moral; the rest are jovial or bacchanalian. Dryden.

Pleasure [Obs.] " Lust and jollity." Chaucer.

The act of making merry; conviviality; merriment; jollity. Wordsworth.

Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity. Then will I cause to cease ... from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth. Jer. vii. 34.

Love; gallantry. [Obs.] "For paramour and jollity." Chaucer.

A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. This day in mirth and revel to dispend. Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. Rambler. Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.

Of unrestrained and intemperate jollity; riotously merry; dissolute. "Saturnalian amusement." Burke.

Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling. Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. Milton.