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merry (3 not pre-S.)
1. (of wind) favourable Err. IV. i. 91.
2. amusing, funny Tit. V. ii. 175 “a merry jest.”
3. facetious, ‘pleasant’ Tim. III. ii. 42 “I know his lordship is but merry with me.”
4. “merry men,” companions in arms or followers of a knight or an outlaw chief AYL. I. i. 123.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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