chear
English
Noun
chear (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of cheer.
- 1789, William Blake, “Introduction”, in Songs of Innocence:
- Piping down the valleys wild /Piping songs of pleasant glee / On a cloud I saw a child. / And he laughing said to me: / "Pipe a song about a Lamb!" / So I piped with merry chear.