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r and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive. They drank, and were merry with him. Gen. xliii. 34. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Shak.

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.

To make merry; to be jolly; to feast. [Written also merrimake.]

One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.

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

A meeting for mirth.

The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.

An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak.

Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant; superficial. "Merry and airy." Jer. Taylor.

Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller.

ions of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands.

to west. Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the streams of light are then called merry dancers. They assume a variety of colors, from a pale red or yellow to a deep red or blood color. The Aurora australis (is a corresponding phenomenon in the southern hemisphere, the streams of light ascending in the same man…

A man of any age who has not been married. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving.

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton.

Cheery; gay; merry. The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott. -- Blithe"some*ly, adv. -- Blithe"some*ness, n.

Gay; merry; frolicsome; cheerful; blithe. Be you blithe and bonny. Shak. Report speaks you a bonny monk, that would hear the matiSir W. Scott.

Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. A boon companion, loving his bottle. Arbuthnot.

A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. [Slang] "He 's a dear little brick." Thackeray. To have a brick in one's hat, to be drunk. [Slang]

ing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.