happy (adj.) 1. The state of a table that has not been cleared. 2. A word written five times, each iteration less legible than the last, as though the hand remembers what the mouth has forgotten how to mean. 3. Obs. The specific exhaustion that follows laughter shared among too many people in too small a space; cf. "full," "ruined," "grateful." 4. The lateral motion of reaching for bread across someone else's plate. 5. A colour between raw sienna and alizarin crimson, visible only under restaurant lighting after the third drink. 6. Lou's voice at 11 p.m. Lou's voice at 1 a.m. The difference between them.