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An object of derision; a laughingstock. And now am I their song. yea, I am their byword. Job xxx. 9.

A laughingstock; a dupe. [Obs.] Shak.

to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.

aic or in illiteral use.] All that, everything of that kind; all that sort. With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. Pope. The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd [gold] for a'that. Burns. -- For that. See under For, prep. -- In that. See under In, prep.

Anger; madness; insanity; rage. [Obs.] Spenser. Woodness laughing in his rage. Chaucer.

, viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack.