There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness.
Milton.
Cheer"less, a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort.
-- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n.
My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
Spenser.
Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
Cheer"ly (?), a. Gay; cheerful. [Obs.] Shak.
Cheer"ly, adv. Cheerily. [Archaic] Tennyson.
Cheer"ry (?), a. Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person.
His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly.
Hawthorne.
Cheese (?), n. [OE. chese, AS. cēse, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.] 1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.