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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

... buzzes on the low ones and squeaks and scratches on the high; but these things they heed no more than they heed the dirt and noise and squalor about them—it is out of this material that they have to build their lives, with it that they have to utter their souls. And this is their utterance; merry and boisterous, or mournful and wailing, or passionate and rebellious, this music is their music, music of home. It stretches out its arms to them, they have only to give themselves up. Chicago and its saloons and its slums fade away—there are green meadows ...

— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

... when confined in a paper cage and set in the sun, and supplied with plants moistened with water, will feed and thrive, and become so merry and loud as to be irksome in the same room where a person is sitting: if the plants are not wetted it ...

— The Natural History of Selborne • Gilbert White

... attendant evil. She only shrank from the first and looked through the second, onward and outward to the ultimate good which she was convinced lay at the end of everything, and meanwhile, being young and merry, she found ...

— The Ghost Kings • H. Rider Haggard

... obtained on the opposite bank. One can seldom afford to follow wild animals on the line of march, otherwise we might have bagged some antelopes to-day, which, scared by the interminable singing, shouting, bell-jingling, horn-blowing, and other such merry noises of the moving caravan, could be seen disappearing ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... He was a merry, active, good-humoured fellow, and gave us a number of songs, one of which I wrote down. Although unfortunately I cannot give an accompanying translation, yet this song exhibits the remarkable softness of the language from ...

— Narrative Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By The Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During The Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries And Surveys In New Guinea, The Louisiade • John MacGillivray

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