[f. CHEER v. + -ING2.] That cheers, in various senses of the vb.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 109. Seas ringing with cheering clamorus hoyssayle?
1647. Crashaw, Poems (1652), 169. Springs of joy from whose all-cheering ray The fair stars fill their weakful fires.
1796. Stedman, Surinam, I. i. 14. I now had recourse … to a chearing glass of claret.
1835. Browning, Paracelsus, IV. Wks. I. 141. A cheering promise Of better things to come.
1839. Thirlwall, Greece, III. xxvi. 449. The martial pomp, the cheering crowds.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 119. The aspect of affairs was, on the whole, cheering.
