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Webster 1913 Edition

(blīth)

Adj.

[AS.

blīðe

blithe, kind; akin to Goth.

bleiþs

kind, Icel.

blīðr

mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw.

blid

gentle, D.

blijd

blithe, OHG.

blīdi

kind, blithe.]

Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful;

as, a

blithe

spirit

The

blithe

sounds of festal music.

Prescott.

A daughter fair,
So buxom,

blithe

, and debonair.

Milton.

Adj.

[L. loetus; Eng. glad. See Bliss and glad.]

Gay; merry; joyous; sprightly; mirthful.

For that fair female troop thou sawest, that seemed

Of goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay.