Pleasant, agreeable, facetious. A New England expression.
1816. They would say of a man of humour, he is very musical.—Pickering, ‘Vocab.’ (N.E.D.)
1819. [They declared him to be] a nice man, and very musical, that is to say, good-humoured and polite.—“An Englishman” in the Western Star: Mass. Spy, May 12.
1825. You’re musical enough, in your own way, (musical—pshaw—clever) very well.—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 198.
1825. If here ain’t some as musical tobacco as ever you seed.—Id., ii. 48.
1835. Well then, replied Tom, my horse will trot as slow as common horses will stand still. You are a musical fellow, said the master.—D. P. Thompson, ‘Adventures of Timothy Peacock,’ p. 122.
