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adjective

Merry adj. (compar. merrier; superl. merriest)

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."

Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy. "Is any merry? let him sing psalms."

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.

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Etymology of 'Merry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Merry" Quotes from Famous Books

... of all classes were free, open, and liberal. In frank style the people lived in "merry England," displaying the "glory of hospitality," England's pre-eminent boast, by the rules according to which all tables were open to all comers without reserve. To every man, according to his degree, ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

... till your spirit shall return to you again, as it was when first ye left your own country of rugged Ithaca; but now are ye wasted and wanting heart, mindful evermore of your sore wandering, nor has your heart ever been merry, for very grievous hath been ...

— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.

... Egbert joined in the king's merry laugh. The dame looked a picture of consternation and fell upon ...

— The Dragon and the Raven - or, The Days of King Alfred • G. A. Henty

... about the country with Hopping Ned and Biting Giles. Those were happy days, and a merry and prosperous life we led. However, nothing continues under the sun in the same state in which it begins, and our firm was soon destined to undergo a change. We came to a village where there was a very high church steeple, and in a little time my comrades ...

— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

... and about us Death—Shame—Crime—Despair, are busy at their work. I have read somewhere of an enchanted land, where the inmates walked along voluptuous gardens, and built palaces, and heard music, and made merry; while around, and within, the land, were deep caverns, where the gnomes and the fiends dwelt: and ever and anon their groans and laughter, and the sounds of their unutterable toils, or ghastly revels, travelled to the upper ...

— Eugene Aram, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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