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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.






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"Merry" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ranulph's pointed scarlet shoe for a grain lodged there. The troubadour bent down, held out his hand, and the bird walked into it. He had played with birds often enough in his vagabond early years to know their feelings. But now a wave of merry voices broke upon ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey

... fortunate hour of English history, when the cruel sights and haunting insecurities of the Middle Ages had passed away, and while, as yet, the fanatic zeal of Puritanism had not cast its blighting shadow over all merry and pleasant things, it seemed good to one Denzil Calmady, esquire, to build himself a stately red-brick and freestone house upon the southern verge of the great plateau of moorland which ranges ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet

... It was rather given to puckering up, funny little face that it was. She was eight years old, short and rather stout, with thick, dark hair and a freckled complexion. Her nose turned up and her mouth was not small. But she was not ugly; she had merry gray eyes and very white teeth. Somehow, thorough little English girl though she was, she reminded one of the small Savoyard boys one sees with a box of marmots slung in front of them, or a ...
— The Rectory Children • Mrs Molesworth

... occurs there, temp. Edward I. Pim, as a female font-name, may be from Euphemia, and Siddons appears to belong to Sidonia, while the pretty name Avice appears as Avis and Haweis. From Lettice, Lat. laetitia, joy, we have Letts, Lettson, while the corresponding Joyce, Lat. jocosa, merry, has become confused with Fr. Josse (Chapter I). Anstey, Antis, is from Anastasia, Precious from Preciosa, and Royce ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley

... had one daughter, who was just fifteen years old. Her name was Fiordelisa, and she was the prettiest and most charming Princess imaginable, always gay and merry. The new Queen, who also had a daughter, very soon sent for her to come to the Palace. Turritella, for that was her name, had been brought up by her godmother, the Fairy Mazilla, but in spite of all the care bestowed upon her, she ...
— The Green Fairy Book • Various


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