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Ambiguous discourse; amphibology. If it oracle contrary to our interest or humor, we will create an amphiboly, a double meaning where there is none. Whitlock.

The quality of being angry, or of being inclined to anger. Such an angriness of humor that we take fire at everything. Whole Duty of Man.

Corrective of acrimony of the humors.

Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another. [Obs.]

To busy; to keep at work; to ply. [Obs.] She was skillful in applying his "humors." Sir P. Sidney.

ract, an extract obtained from a vegetable substance by steeping it in water. -- Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to…

The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. Goldsmith.

consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.

To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle. Young.

The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good- humored raillery; pleasantry. Part banter, part affection. Tennyson.

Liquor made from barley; strong ale. [Humorous] [Scot.] Burns.

to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.

A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. [Humorous]

To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. "Except she bend her humor." Shak.

Bitterness of feeling; choler; anger; ill humor; as, to stir one's bile. Prescott.

oq.] The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching. Humorist.

Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum. -- Blear"ed*ness (, n. Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Shak.

The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]

ong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.]

A blow on the head or ear with the hand. A good-humored box on the ear. W. Irving.