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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Sullen :: Sullen (a.) Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
Merry :: Merry (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
Whoreson :: Whoreson (n.) A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively..
Sprig :: Sprig (n.) A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
Phlegm :: Phlegm (a.) One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
Humorize :: Humorize (v. t.) To humor.
Humor :: Humor (n.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin..
Humorist :: Humorist (n.) One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways..
Antacrid :: Antacrid (a.) Corrective of acrimony of the humors.
Humoralist :: Humoralist (n.) One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.
Dishumor :: Dishumor (v. t.) To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor.
Soothe :: Soothe (a.) To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.
Fretful :: Fretful (a.) Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper..
Bleared :: Bleared (a.) Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum..
Tun :: Tun (n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt..
Whim :: Whim (n.) A sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice.
Peccant :: Peccant (a.) Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors..
Secretitious :: Secretitious (a.) Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors..
Buffer :: Buffer (n.) A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man..
Rascally :: Rascally (a.) Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty..
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