Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (superl.) Ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.

2. (superl.) Gay; merry; festal.

3. (n.) One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

4. (n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.