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Cheer"ing*ly (?), adv. In a
manner to cheer or encourage.

Cheer"is*ness, n.
Cheerfulness. [Obs.]

There is no Christian duty that is not to be
seasoned and set off with cheerishness.

Milton.

Cheer"less, a. Without joy,
gladness, or comfort.

-- Cheer"less*ly, adv. --
Cheer"less*ness, n.

My cheerful day is turned to cheerless
night.

Spenser.

Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting;
dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.

Cheer"ly (?), a. Gay;
cheerful. [Obs.] Shak.

Cheer"ly, adv. Cheerily.
[Archaic] Tennyson.

Cheer"ry (?), a. Cheerful;
lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery
person.

His cheery little study, where the sunshine
glimmered so pleasantly.

Hawthorne.

Cheese (?), n. [OE. chese,
AS. cēse, fr.


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