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.