Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
Jas. v. 13.
3. Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, a merry jest.
"Merry wind and weather." Spenser.
Merry dancers. See under Dancer. -- Merry men, followers; retainers.
[Obs.]
His merie men commanded he To make him bothe game and glee.
Chaucer.
-- To make merry, to be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to feast with
mirth. Judg. ix. 27.
Syn. -- Cheerful; blithe; lively; sprightly; vivacious; gleeful;
joyous; mirthful; jocund; sportive; hilarious.
Mer"ry (mr"r), n. (Bot.) A kind of wild red cherry.
Mer"ry-an"drew (-n"dr), n. One whose business is to make sport for
others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or
quack doctor.
This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English
physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious
speeches to the multitude.
Mer"ry-go`-round" (?), n. Any revolving contrivance for affording
amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.
Mer"ry*make` (?), n. Mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival.
[Written also merrimake.]
Mer"ry*make`, v. i. To make merry; to be jolly; to feast. [Written also
merrimake.]
Mer"ry*mak`er (?), n. One who makes merriment or indulges in
conviviality; a jovial comrade.
Mer"ry*mak`ing (?), a. Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
Mer"ry*mak`ing, n. The act of making merry; conviviality; merriment;
jollity. Wordsworth.
Mer"ry*meet`ing (?), n. A meeting for mirth.
Mer"ry*thought` (?), n. The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called
also wishbone. See Furculum.
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 omen, signifying that the person holding
it will obtain the gratification of some secret wish.
Mer"sion (?), n. [L. mersio. See Merge.] Immersion. [R.] Barrow.
Me*ru"li*dan (?), n. [L. merula, merulus, blackbird. See Merle.]
(Zoöl.) A bird of the Thrush family.
||Me"rus (?), n. [NL.] (Arch.) See Meros.
Mer"vaille` (?), n. Marvel. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Mes- (?). See Meso-.
||Me"sa (?), &?;. [Sp.] A high tableland; a plateau on a hill.
||[Southwestern U.S.] Bartlett.
Mes*ac"o*nate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of mesaconic acid.
Mes`a*con"ic (?), a. [Mes- + -aconic, as in citraconic.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, one of several isomeric acids obtained
from citric acid.
Mes"ad (?), adv. Same as Mesiad.
Mes"al (?), a. Same as Mesial.
||Mé`sal`li`ance" (?), n. [F.] A marriage with a person of inferior
||social position; a misalliance.
Mes"al*ly (ms"al*l), adv. Same as Mesially.
Mes`a*mœ"boid (ms`*m"boid), n. [Mes- + amœboid.] (Biol.) One of a class
of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ
layers are undergoing differentiation.
Mes`a*ra"ic (?), a. [Gr. mesa`raion mesentery; me`sos middle + 'araia`
flank.] (Anat.) Mesenteric.
Mes`a*ti*ce*phal"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; midmost + E. cephalic.] (Anat.)
Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium
one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.
Mes`a*ti*ceph"a*lous (?), a. (Anat.) Mesaticephalic.
||Mes*cal" (?), n. [Sp.] A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a
||species of agave. See Agave.
||Mes`dames" (F. ?, E. ?), n., pl. of Madame and Madam.