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The stomach. [Humorous] S. Foote.

Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

t buckle with me. Shak. To buckle to, to bend to; to engage with zeal. To make our sturdy humor buckle thereto. Barrow. Before buckling to my winter's work. J. D. Forbes.

A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]

ing bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them. -- John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

-- Cabbage head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. -- Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. -- Cabbage rose (Bot.), a species of ro…

A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. Dunglison.

to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam.

A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.

of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

e; to sut; to harmonize; to correspond; to fall in with. Everything chimed in with such a humor. W. irving.

rroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous]

To rhyme. [Humorous]. Cowper.

Suitable for membership in a club; sociable. [Humorous.] G. W. Curtis.

A chief man; a leader or master. [Humorous] Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us. Addison.

The change which the humorists believed morbific matter undergoes before elimination. [Obs.] Dunglison.

A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation. [Colloq.] A few of us old codgers met at the fireside. Emerson.

The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating. [Obs.] "The concitation of humors." Sir T. Browne.