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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,486 words match “HUM”

HUMMUM n.
A sweating bath or place for sweating. Sir T. Herbert.
HUMOR n. 7 definitions
e, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
HUMORAL a.
Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever. Humoral pathology (Med.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.
HUMORALISM n. 2 definitions
The state or quality of being humoral.
HUMORALIST n.
One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.
HUMORISM n. 2 definitions
The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism. Dunglison.
HUMORIST n. 3 definitions
One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.
HUMORISTIC a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.
HUMORIZE v.
To humor. Marston.
HUMORLESS a.
Destitute of humor.
HUMOROUS a. 3 definitions
Moist; humid; watery. [Obs.] All founts wells, all deeps humorous. Chapman.
HUMOROUSLY adv. 2 definitions
Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy.
HUMOROUSNESS n. 2 definitions
Moodiness; capriciousness.
HUMORSOME a. 2 definitions
Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke.
HUMORSOMELY adv.
Pleasantly; humorously.
HUMORSOMENESS n.
Quality of being humorsome.
HUMP n. 2 definitions
A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
HUMP-SHOULDERED a.
Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
HUMPBACK n. 4 definitions
A crooked back; a humped back. Tatler.
HUMPBACKED a.
Having a humped back.
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