Hypertext Webster Gateway: "happiest"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Happy \Hap"py\, a. [Compar. {Happier}; superl. {Happiest}.]
[From {Hap} chance.]
1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate;
successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy
expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.

Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments
than the causes of them. --Boyle.

2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the
feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of
enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace,
tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours,
happy thoughts.

Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps.
cxliv. 15.

The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is
happy that he knows no more. --Pope.

3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.

One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in
a in a rejoinder. --Swift.

{Happy family}, a collection of animals of different and
hostile propensities living peaceably together in one
cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons
who are in fact mutually repugnant.

{Happy-go-lucky}, trusting to hap or luck; improvident;
easy-going. ``Happy-go-lucky carelessness.'' --W. Black.


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