Word Meanings - HEARTSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Merry; cheerful; lively.

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• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• MERRY
  mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige, pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short, Goth. gamaúrgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the Anglo-Saxon and
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• CHEERFULNESS
  Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
• MERRYMAKER
  One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
• 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
• MERRYMEETING
  A meeting for mirth.
• CHEERFULLY
  In a cheerful manner, gladly.
• MERRYTHOUGHT
  The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum. Note: It is a sportive custom for two persons to break this bone by pulling the ends apart to see who will get the longer piece, the securing of which is regarded as a lucky
• MERRY-GO-ROUND
  Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.