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e Pharisees, also, . . . derided him. Luke xvi. 14. Sport that wrinkled Care derides. And Laughter holding both his sides. Milton.

aid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess. You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . . And his whole kingdom into desolation. Shak.

slaying; devastation. The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. Esth. ix. 5. 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. Shak. Destruction of venerable establishment. Hallam.

eat dispersion of the human family took place at the building of Babel. The days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished. Jer. xxv. 34.

Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange.

en also dillisk.] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. Percival.

ng which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.

Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply. -- Fa*ce"tious*ly, adv. -- Fa*ce"tious*ness, n.

A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food. He sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 2 Sam. vi. 13.

To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

One who fattens cattle for slaughter.

me; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter. All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree of pain. Swift. The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously. Macaulay.

Glutted; satiated; initiated. Fleshed with slaughter. Dryden.

A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals. Gambrel roof (Arch.), a curb roof having the same section in all parts, with a lower steeper slope and an upper and flatter one, so that each gable is pentagonal in form.

." Shak. "In . . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.

Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing. "Gelastic muscles." Sir T. Browne.

Divination by means of laughter.

To shed tears; to weep. [Obs.] Whose eyes do never give But through lust and laughter. Shak.

ips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, acorn, or pain. The pangs of death do make him grin. Shak.

A loud burst of laughter, a horse laugh. "A hearty low guffaw." Carlyle.