Part 462

Heb. xii. 2.

Tears of true joy for his return.

Shak.

Joy is a delight of the mind, from the consideration of the present or assured approaching possession of a good.

Locke.

2. That which causes joy or happiness.

For ye are our glory and joy.

1 Thess. ii. 20.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Keats.

3. The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity.

Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.

Spenser.

The roofs with joy resound.

Dryden.

Joy is used in composition, esp. with participles, to from many self-explaining compounds; as, joy-bells, joy-bringing, joy-inspiring, joy-resounding, etc.

Syn. -- Gladness; pleasure; delight; happiness; exultation; transport; felicity; ecstasy; rapture; bliss; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity; hilarity.

Joy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Joyed (joid); p. pr. & vb. n. Joying.] [OF. joir, F. jouir. See Joy, n.] To rejoice; to be glad; to delight; to exult.

I will joy in the God of my salvation.

Hab. iii. 18.

In whose sight all things joy.

Milton.

Joy, v. t. 1. To give joy to; to congratulate. [Obs.] "Joy us of our conquest." Dryden.

To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.

Prior.

2. To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate. [Obs.]

Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.

Shak.