Found 5 hits - Term: humor, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
humor \hu"mor\, n. oe. humour, of. humor, umor, f. humeur, l.
humor, umor, moisture, fluid, fr. humere, umere, to be moist.
see humid. written also humour.
1. moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal
bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the
eye, etc.
1913 webster
note: the ancient physicians believed that there were four
humors the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and
black bile or melancholy, on the relative proportion
of which the temperament and health depended.
1913 webster
2. med. a vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often
causes an eruption on the skin. "a body full of humors."
--sir w. temple.
1913 webster
3. 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.
1913 webster
examine how your humor is inclined,
and which the ruling passion of your mind.
--roscommon.
1913 webster
a prince of a pleasant humor. --bacon.
1913 webster
i like not the humor of lying. --shak.
1913 webster
4. pl. changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices;
freaks; vagaries; whims.
1913 webster
is my friend all perfection, all virtue and
discretion? has he not humors to be endured?
--south.
1913 webster
5. 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.
1913 webster
for thy sake i admit
that a scot may have humor, i'd almost said wit.
--goldsmith.
1913 webster
a great deal of excellent humor was expended on the
perplexities of mine host. --w. irving.
1913 webster
aqueous humor, crystalline humor or crystalline lens,
vitreous humor. anat. see eye.
out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant
frame of mind.
syn: wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood;
frame; whim; fancy; caprice. see wit.
1913 webster
see also:
humid humour aqueous humor crystalline humor crystalline lens vitreous humor
eye out of humor wit
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
humor \hu"mor\, v. t. imp. p. p. humored; p. pr. vb. n.
humoring.
1. 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.
1913 webster
it is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor
that invention. --dryden.
1913 webster
2. to help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to
soothe; to gratify; to please.
1913 webster
you humor me when i am sick. --pope.
syn: to gratify; to indulge. see gratify.
1913 webster
see also:
humored humoring gratify
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
humor
n 1: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has
the power to evoke laughter syn: wit, humour, witticism,
wittiness
2: 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" syn: humour,
sense of humor, sense of humour
3: a characteristic habitual or relatively temporary state of
feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his
temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" syn: temper,
mood, humour
4: the quality of being funny; "i fail to see the humor in it"
syn: humour
5: 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" syn: humour
6: the liquid parts of the body syn: liquid body substance,
bodily fluid, body fluid, humour
v : put into a good mood syn: humour
see also:
wit humour witticism wittiness sense of humor sense of humour
temper mood liquid body substance bodily fluid body fluid
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
288 moby thesaurus words for "humor":
atticism, rh factor, rh-negative, rh-positive, rh-type,
rhesus factor, agile wit, ambiversion, antibody, antigen, appease,
arterial blood, baby, banter, bay, bee, black humor, blood,
blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor,
blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture,
blood platelet, blood pressure, blood serum, blood substitute,
bloodmobile, bloodstream, body-build, bogginess, boutade,
brainstorm, brand, burlesque, capriccio, caprice, caricature, cast,
cater to, chaffing, character, characteristic, characteristics,
chitchat, chyle, circulation, clinical dextran, cocker, coddle,
colostrum, comedy, comicality, comicalness, complexion,
composition, conceit, constituents, constitution, cosset, cotton,
crank, crasis, craze, crazy idea, crotchet, cue,
cycloid personality, cyclothymia, damp, dampness, dewiness,
dextran, dharma, diathesis, discharge, disposition, drollery,
drollness, dry wit, ectomorphism, ectomorphy, endomorphism,
endomorphy, erythrocyte, esprit, ethos, extroversion,
extrovertedness, exudation, facetiousness, fad, fancy,
fantastic notion, fantasy, farce, favor, fiber, flimflam,
flippancy, fogginess, fool notion, frame, frame of mind, freak,
freakish inspiration, funniness, gags, genius, give way to, gleet,
globulin, gore, grain, gratify, grume, habit, harebrained idea,
heart, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope,
hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, hue, humectation,
humorousness, humors, ichor, ilk, individualism, individuality,
indulge, ingoingness, introversion, introvertedness, irony,
isoantibody, jesting, jocoseness, jocularity, jocundity, jokes,
joking, jolly, kidding, kind, kink, lachryma, lactation, lampoon,
leukocyte, leukorrhea, levity, lifeblood, lightness, ludicrousness,
lymph, maggot, makeup, marshiness, matter, megrim, mesomorphism,
mesomorphy, milk, mind, mistiness, moistiness, moistness, moisture,
mold, mollify, mollycoddle, mood, morale, mucor, mucus, nature,
neutrophil, nimble wit, note, notion, oblige, opsonin,
other-directedness, outgoingness, pamper, parody, passing fancy,
peccant humor, personality, personality tendency, phagocyte,
phlegm, physique, placate, plasma, plasma substitute, pleasantry,
please, pretty wit, property, purulence, pus, quality, quick wit,
quirk, raillery, rainfall, raininess, ready wit, red corpuscle,
repartee, rheum, saliva, salt, sanies, sarcasm, satire, satisfy,
savor of wit, schizoid personality, schizothymia, serous fluid,
serum, showeriness, slapstick, slapstick humor, snot, soddenness,
sogginess, somatotype, soothe, soppiness, sort, spirit, spirits,
spoil, squib, stamp, state of mind, strain, streak, stripe,
subtle wit, suchness, suppuration, swampiness, sweat, syntony,
system, tear, teardrop, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor,
the whites, tone, toy, travesty, type, type o, urine, vagary, vein,
venous blood, visual humor, waggishness, wateriness, way, wet,
wetness, wettishness, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, white corpuscle,
wit, wittiness, yield to
- [5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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