Humour

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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     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.
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     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.
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     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.
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              Examine how your humor is inclined,
              And which the ruling passion of your mind.
                                                    --Roscommon.
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              A prince of a pleasant humor.         --Bacon.
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              I like not the humor of lying.        --Shak.
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     4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices;
        freaks; vagaries; whims.
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              Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and
              discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?
                                                    --South.
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     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.
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              For thy sake I admit
              That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit.
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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              A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the
              perplexities of mine host.            --W. Irving.
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     {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}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  humour \humour\ n.
     same as {humor}. [Chiefly Brit.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  humour
       n 1: 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}, {humor}]
       2: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has
          the power to evoke laughter [syn: {wit}, {humor}, {witticism},
           {wittiness}]
       3: (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: {humor}]
       4: the liquid parts of the body [syn: {liquid body substance},
          {bodily fluid}, {body fluid}, {humor}]
       5: the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
          [syn: {humor}]
       6: 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: {humor},
           {sense of humor}, {sense of humour}]
       v : put into a good mood [syn: {humor}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  humour
       
          {hacker humour}