Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Gay; cheerful; not gloomy.
  • Cheerily; cheerfully; heartily; briskly.
  • Lovingly; tenderly.
  • Worthily; fitly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Gay; cheerful.
  • adverb Archaic Cheerily.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete cheerful
  • adverb obsolete cheerfully

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