Merry

mer′i, adj. sportive: cheerful: noisily gay: causing laughter: lively.— adv. Merr′ily .— ns. Merr′imake , Merr′y-make ( Spens. ), a meeting for making merry, a festival, mirth.— v.i. to make merry, to feast.— ns. Merr′iment , Merr′ine , gaiety with laughter and noise: mirth: hilarity; Merr′y-an′drew , one who makes sport for others: a buffoon: one who goes round with a mountebank or a quack doctor—also Merr′yman ; Merr′y-go-round , a revolving ring of hobby-horses, ., on which children ride round at fairs, .; Merr′y-mak′ing , a merry entertainment, a festival; Merr′y-thought , the forked bone of a fowl's breast, which two persons pull at in play, the one who breaks off the longer part being thought likely to be first married. [A.S. merg , from the Celtic, as in Gael. and Ir. mear , merry , Gael. mir , to sport.]