1. Abounding in cheerfulness; in excellent spirits, lively.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Lie, To say a thing with a merrie countenance, cheerie visage, looke full of glee.
1664. Pepys, Diary, 5 April. I find him pretty cheery over what he was yesterday.
1767. Sterne, Tr. Shandy (1802), III. 209. The Corporal, with cheery eye.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., I. 89. She had … a stout cheery farmer for a husband.
1869. Trollope, He knew, etc. xxvi. (1878), 144. Endeavouring to speak … in a cheery voice.
1875. Mrs. Randolph, W. Hyacinth, I. 95. You will be in a cheerier mood to-morrow.
2. Such as to cheer or enliven; cheering.
c. 1720. Gay, Pastoral, v. Come, let us hie, and quaff a cheery bowl.
1871. Carlyle, in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett., III. 175. She was … a kind of cheery sunshine in those otherwise Egyptian days.
