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English Dictionary: happy	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for happy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
happy adj enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage" Antonym(s): unhappy marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome" Synonym(s): felicitous, happy eagerly disposed to act or to be of service; "glad to help" Synonym(s): glad, happy well expressed and to the point; "a happy turn of phrase"; "a few well-chosen words" Synonym(s): happy, well-chosen
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. [bd]Happy-go-lucky carelessness.[b8] --W. Black.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Happy, KY Zip code(s): 41746 Happy, TX (town, FIPS 32156) Location: 34.74135 N, 101.85587 W Population (1990): 588 (293 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79042
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Happy A dyslexic acronym for "A Yacc-like Haskell Parser generator". An {LALR1 grammar} {parser generator} for {Haskell}. Happy is written in Haskell, uses a parser generated by itself, and can be compiled using {ghc}, {hbc} or {gofer}. Happy uses an implementation of {monadic IO} built on top of stream IO, but this should change when the {Haskell 1.3} {standard} has been implemented. Version: 0.9 (1996-02-28). Happy is covered by the {General Public License}. {Home (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/happy.html)}. {(ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/happy/)}. E-mail: , . (1996-03-21)