Word Meanings - MERRYMEETING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A meeting for mirth.
Related words: (words related to MERRYMEETING)
- MEETER
One who meets. - MEETEN
To render fit. - MEETH
, Mead. See Meathe. Chaucer. - MEETINGHOUSE
A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters. - MEET
meten, AS. m, fr. m, gem, a meeting; akin to OS. m to meet, Icel. 1. To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact - MIRTHFUL
1. Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children. 2. Indicating or inspiring mirth; as, a mirthful face. Mirthful, comic shows. Shak. -- Mirth"ful*ly, adv. -- Mirth"ful*ness, n. - MEETNESS
Fitness; suitableness; propriety. - MIRTHLESS
Without mirth. -- Mirth"less*ness, n. - MEETLY
Fitly; suitably; properly. - MIRTH
1. Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity. Then will I cause to cease ... from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth. Jer. vii. 34. 2. That which causes merriment. Shak. Syn. -- Merriment; joyousness; gladness; fun; frolic; - MEETING
1. A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress. 2. A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers. 3. A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting. - WATCH MEETING
A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year. - UNDERMIRTH
Suppressed or concealed mirth. The Coronation. - SMEETH
To smoke; to blacken with smoke; to rub with soot. - BEMEET
To meet. Our very loving sister, well bemet. Shak. - MERRYMEETING
A meeting for mirth. - UNMEET
Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for. "Unmeet for a wife." Tennyson. And all unmeet our carpet floors. Emerson. -- Un*meet"ly, adv. -- Un*meet"ness, n. - PRAISE-MEETING
A religious service mainly in song. - HELPMEET
A wife; a helpmate. The Lord God created Adam, . . . and afterwards, on his finding the want of a helpmeet, caused him to sleep, and took one of his ribs and thence made woman. J. H. Newman.