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Merry   /mˈɛri/   Listen
adjective
Merry  adj.  (compar. merrier; superl. merriest)  
1.
Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play; sportive. "They drank, and were merry with him." "I am never merry when I hear sweet music."
2.
Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy. "Is any merry? let him sing psalms."
3.
Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, a merry jest. "Merry wind and weather."
Merry dancers. See under Dancer.
Merry men, followers; retainers. (Obs.) "His merie men commanded he To make him bothe game and glee."
To make merry, to be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to feast with mirth.
Synonyms: Cheerful; blithe; lively; sprightly; vivacious; gleeful; joyous; mirthful; jocund; sportive; hilarious.



noun
Merry  n.  (Bot.) A kind of wild red cherry.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Merry" Quotes from Famous Books



... love for on-lookers, and we'd better not stay in here long." Jimmy's voice was cautious, but his eyes merry, and, glancing in the direction of the sour and snappy person watching each movement of each worker, I agreed with him that it was not well to linger. The room was big and bare, its benches filled with white-faced workers, and the autocrat ...
— People Like That • Kate Langley Bosher

... quarters, he has painted wicked women and queens (Catherine and Elizabeth), did he not likewise refresh our souls with the enchanting portraits of Angiolina (the wife of Faliero), and of Josephine (the wife of Werner). If he made merry at the expense of coquettish, weak, hypocritical women (like Adeline, for instance), has he not consoled us by painting, in far greater number, angels of loving devotedness, like Myrrha, Adah, Medora, Haidee, and in general all his delightful female ...
— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli

... in a south-westerly wind, that part of our archipelago is no better than a trap. If a ship got through the reefs, and weathered the Merry Men, it would be to come ashore on the south coast of Aros, in Sandag Bay, where so many dismal things befell our family, as I propose to tell. The thought of all these dangers, in the place I knew so long, makes me particularly welcome the works now going ...
— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson

... always ready to drop a book for a romp with Pat Patterson. Bounding about the deck together, they looked like a greyhound and a St. Bernard—she slim and alert, he with his rough hair tumbling over his merry, freckled face. Often their games ended by her stalking away with Honey-Sweet, in offended dignity. Pat ...
— Honey-Sweet • Edna Turpin

... said I, pleased to see her merry; and then I went on to tell her the sad story of Andre, but not of what he told me concerning Arthur. The tears came to her eyes, although of course it was no new tale, and she went white again, so that I would have turned the talk aside, but she stopped ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell


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