Word Meanings - BELLYCHEER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
Related words: (words related to BELLYCHEER)
- CHEERINESS
The state of being cheery. - CHEERISNESS
Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton. - CHEERINGLY
In a manner to cheer or encourage. - CHEERER
One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson. - BELLYCHEER
Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton. - CHEERFULNESS
Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity. - CHEERLESS
Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser. Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn. - CHEER
chère, fr. LL. cara face, Gr. , L. cerebrum brain, G. hirn, and E. 1. The face; the countenance or its expression. "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif. 2. Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart. Be of good cheer. Matt. ix. 2. The parents . . . fled - CHEERRY
Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne. - CHEERFUL
Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing. To entertain a cheerful disposition. Shak. The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chant sweet music. Spenser. A cheerful confidence in the - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - CHEERFULLY
In a cheerful manner, gladly. - CHEERILY
In a cheery manner. - CHEERLY
Gay; cheerful. Shak. - LOAVES
pl. of Loaf. - UPCHEER
To cheer up. Spenser. - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.