HUMOR
\hjˈuːmə], \hjˈuːmə], \h_j_ˈuː_m_ə]\
Definitions of HUMOR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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the liquid parts of the body
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the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
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the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
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a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
By Princeton University
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the liquid parts of the body
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the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
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the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
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one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed (in ancient and medieval physiology) to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
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a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
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A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.
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State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.
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Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.
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To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.
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To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.
By Oddity Software
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Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
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A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.
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State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.
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Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.
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To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.
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To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.
By Noah Webster.
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The faculty of expressing the amusing, clever, or comical or the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Wit; merriment; the tendency to look at things from the mirthful side; caprice; proud conceit; temper; as, good or bad humor; petulance; peevishness; moisture of the body and eye; disease.
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To indulge; yield to a particular desire of.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The uncombined fluids of the body-blood and lymph. 2. Any clear fluid or semifluid hyaline anatomical substance. 3. A chronic moist skin disease.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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The moisture of fluids of animal bodies: an animal fluid in an unhealthy state: state of mind (because once thought to depend on the humors of the body): disposition: caprice: a mental quality which delights in ludicrous and mirthful ideas.
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To go in with the humor of: to gratify by compliance.
By Daniel Lyons
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Animal fluid; state of mind; disposition; caprice; subtle kind of wit.
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To comply with the humor of; indulge.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To yield to the humor or caprices of; adapt oneself to.
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Disposition; characteristic mood; whim.
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A facetious turn of thought.
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An animal fluid.
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A catuneous eruption.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Humour-h. Albugineous, Aqueous humour-h. Articularis, Synovia-h. Ceruminous, Cerumen-h. Doridis, Water, sea-h. Genitalis, Sperm-h. Glacialis, Crystalline, Corpus vitreum-h. Hyalinus seu Hyaloides, Corpus vitreum-h. Lacteus, Milk-h. Lacrymalis, Tear-h. Melancholicus, see Mercurialis-h. Mercurialis, see Mercurialis-h. Morgagnianus, Morgagni, humor of-h. Ovatus, Aqueous humour-h. Oviformis, Aqueous humour-h. Pericardii, see Pericardium-h. Purnlentus, Pus-h. Seminalis, Sperm-h. Venereus, Sperm-h. Vitreus, Corpus vitreum.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland