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Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.

Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.

To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude. [Obs.] Shak.

A merrymaking; noisy festivity. [Colloq.] We have had a jollification or so together. Sir W. Scott.

The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.

The merrymaking of May Day. Tennyson. Italian may (Bot.), a shrubby species of Spiræa (S. hypericifolia) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches. -- May apple (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant (Podophyllum peltatum). Also, the plant itself (popularly called mandrake), which has two lo…

A great quantity or number. [Prov. Eng.] There was a mort of merrymaking. Dickens.

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.

Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. [Obs.] Companionable and revelous was she. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happening where company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings. Symposiac disputations amongst my acquaintance. Arbuthnot.

One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking. Sydney Smith.