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I'd almost said wit. Goldsmith. A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host. W. Irving. Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or lens, Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye. -- Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind.

Exhibiting a downward convexity caused by unequal growth. Cf. Epinastic.

Downward convexity, or convexity of the inferior surface.

To cause to exit; to call into being. [Obs.] "The first innating cause." Marston.

To take by wiles, stratagem, or deceit; to involve in difficulties or perplexities; to seduce by artifice; to inveigle; to allure; to entangle. The insnaring charms Of love's soft queen. Glover.

The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot. Freed from intricacies, taught to live The easiest way. M…

Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.

To involve, as in difficulty or perplexity; to perplex. [R.] Bp. Hall.

m; as, katabolic processes, which give rise to substances (katastates) of decreasing complexity and increasing stability.

Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem. Knots worthy of solution. Cowper. A man shall be perplexed with knots, and problems of business, and contrary affairs. South.

To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.

Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.

An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as:

The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent. Receiving all, and having no outlet. Fuller.

A way out; exit. [R.] In divers streets and outways multiplied. P. Fletcher.

Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor. And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart. Dryden. The Persian army had advanced into the . . .…

blossom. -- Peach-tree borer (Zoöl.), the larva of a clearwing moth (Ægeria, or Sannina, exitiosa) of the family Ægeriidæ, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself. See Illust. under Borer.

e), the ports of the cylinder communicating with the valve or valves, for the entrance or exit of the steam, respectively.

A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing. Thick with sparkling orient gems The portal shone. Milton. From out the fiery portal of the east. Shak.