Emily Dickinson Lexicon

joy (-s, -'s), n. [OFr joie, joy, jewel.] (webplay: balm, cause, cross, delight, desire, endured, expectation, feelings, gayety, gladness, good, happiness, joy, juggle, love, play, pleasurable, possessing, prospect, rejoice, shout, spirits, transport).

1. Delight; gladness; state of pleasure.
2. Jubilation; exultation; glad exclamation; cry of happiness; expression of jubilance; [fig.] bird song.
3. Cause of happiness; reason for exultation.