(a) Joy, happiness, pleasure, delight; a state of innocent happiness in the garden of Eden; a state of eternal joy, heavenly bliss; also, a joy, delight; as epithet: a source of joy; ~ and wele, wele and ~; (b) mid (with) ~, with joy, with pleasure; also, with enthusiasm, eagerly [quot. a1500(?c1400)]; ?with praise, with honor [last quot.]; also with diminished force, as rime tag; withouten ~; (c) kin and ~, the security of home; world(es (worldli) ~, earthly joy, worldly delight, an earthly pleasure [in both phrases, sometimes difficult to distinguish from win n.(1) 2.(b)]; (d) in asseverations: as ich have ~, as have ich (havest thou) ~, as sure as I (you) expect to have happiness; so god yeve me ~, as sure as I hope that God may give me happiness; so ich ever bidde ~, as sure as I have ever prayed for happiness; (e) the name for the letter ƿ of the alphabet, wynn; (f) in surnames and place names.