cheer vb. (1 once in S.; common Eliz.: ‘to comfort, gladden, console’ is the most freq. sense)
1.
“How cheer'st
thou?,” What cheer?, How is it with thee?
Mer.V. III. v. 76 (Qq
“farest”).
2.
to encourage, incite
3H6 II. iv. 9
“the heart that . . .
cheers these hands . . . To execute the
like upon thyself,”
Tim. I. ii. 44; fig.
Sonn. xv. 6
“Cheered and check'd
e'en by the self-same sky.”
3.
to salute with joyful
sounds
MND. IV. i. 131
“A cry more tuneable Was
never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with
horn.”
