Definition of humor

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Humor (n.) That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness..

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Cross :: Cross (a.) Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman..
Crossly :: Crossly (adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
Changeable :: Changeable (a.) Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor..
Rascally :: Rascally (a.) Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty..
Rally :: Rally (n.) Good-humored raillery.
Crossness :: Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
Humoring :: Humoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Humo.
Tripe :: Tripe (n.) The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural..
Bile :: Bile (n.) Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile..
Phlegm :: Phlegm (a.) One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
Humoral :: Humoral (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever..
Humorsome :: Humorsome (a.) Jocose; witty; humorous.
Reclination :: Reclination (n.) The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one..
Whoreson :: Whoreson (n.) A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively..
Humorsome :: Humorsome (a.) Moody; whimsical; capricious.
Merry :: Merry (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
Humorsomely :: Humorsomely (adv.) Pleasantly; humorously.
Peccant :: Peccant (a.) Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors..
Squirehood :: Squireen (n.) One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously.
Delacrymation :: Delacrymation (n.) An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes.
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