Definition of laughter

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Laughter (v. i.) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i..

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Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The wanton slaughter of game.
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
Fatling :: Fatling (n.) A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food..
Slaughtermen :: Slaughtermen (pl. ) of Slaughterma.
M :: M (n.) A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy..
Mockery :: Mockery (n.) Subject of laughter, derision, or sport..
Burlesque :: Burlesque (a.) Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical..
Spleen :: Spleen (n.) A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
Cachinnatory :: Cachinnatory (a.) Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter..
Manslayer :: Manslayer (n.) One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
Ludicrous :: Ludicrous (a.) Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive..
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger..
Appealable :: Appealable (a.) That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter..
Massacre :: Massacre (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings..
Bloodless :: Bloodless (a.) Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory..
Laughterless :: Laughterless (a.) Not laughing; without laughter.
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
Spill :: Spill (v. t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood..
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
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