Bible Dictionaries
Merry
King James Dictionary
MER'RY, a.
1. Gay and noisy jovial exhilarated to laughter.
Man is the merriest species of the creation.
They drank and were merry with him. Genesis 43
2. Causing laughter or mirth as a merry jest.
3. Brisk as a merry gale. This is the primary sense of the word.
4. Pleasant agreeable delightful.
To make merry, to be jovial to indulge in hilarity to feast with mirth. Judges 9 .
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Entry for 'Merry'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/m/merry.html.