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- Humor - n. - Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
- Humor - n. - A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin.
- Humor - n. - 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.
- Humor - n. - Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.
- 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.
- Humor - v. t. - 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.
- Humor - v. t. - To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.
- Humoral - a. - Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever.
- Humoralism - n. - The state or quality of being humoral.
- Humoralism - n. - The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism.
- Humoralist - n. - One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.
- Humored - imp. & p. p. - of Humor
- Humoring - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Humor
- Humorism - n. - The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.
- Humorism - n. - The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness.
- Humorist - n. - One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.
- Humorist - n. - One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.
- Humorist - n. - One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll.
- Humoristic - a. - Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.
- Humorize - v. t. - To humor.
- Humorless - a. - Destitute of humor.
- Humorous - a. - Moist; humid; watery.
- Humorous - a. - Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.
- Humorous - a. - Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.
- Humorously - adv. - Capriciously; whimsically.
- Placebo - n. - A prescription intended to humor or satisfy.
- Rally - v. t. - To attack with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire.
- Glama - n. - A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.
- Joke - n. - Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.
- Conviviality - n. - The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.
- 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.
- Merry - superl. - Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
- Humorist - n. - One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll.
- Archness - n. - The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness.
- Dishumor - v. t. - To deprive of humor or desire; to put out of humor.
- Take - v. t. - To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.
- Supple - a. - Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
- Pecten - n. - A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.
- Humorous - a. - Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.
- Soothe - a. - To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.
- Enliven - v. t. - To give spirit or vivacity to; to make sprightly, gay, or cheerful; to animate; as, mirth and good humor enliven a company; enlivening strains of music.
- Sebaceous - a. - Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals.
- Humor - v. t. - 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.