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Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey.

The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.

or plenty of anything. [Obs.] She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humor thus. B. Jonson.

some sort with friends as it is with dogs in couples; they should be of the same size and humor. L'Estrange. I'll go in couples with her. Shak.

Characterized by, or in a state of, peevishness, fretfullness, or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman. He had received a cross answer from his mistress. Jer. Taylor.

Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.

The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.

n; to cringe. "A crouching purpose." Wordsworth. Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor Shak.

Humor; temper of mind. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devil excitement. A humorous dare-devil -- the very man To suit my prpose. Ld. Lytton.

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy. Sterne.

A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison.

An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. [Obs.] Bailey.

Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory. -- n.

A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.

A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.

Mood; humor. As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. Shak.

unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of. [Obs.] When . . . the humors in his body ben distempered. Chaucer.

e; as, the diversions of youth. "Public diversions." V. Knox. Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. Addison.

entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor. We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy. C. J. Smith.