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To sculpture; to carve; to engrave. [Obs. or Humorous.] Sandys.

Measuring or containing a foot and a half; as, a sesquipedalian pygmy; -- sometimes humorously applied to long words.

To act as a sinner. [Humorous] Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it. Pope.

One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan. [Colloq. or Humorous] W. Irving.

Not loudly; faintly; timidly. [Obs. or Humorous] You may speak as small as you will. Shak.

The act of speechifying. [Used humorously or in contempt.]

One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. [Used humorously or in contempt.] G. Eliot.

To make a speech; to harangue. [Used derisively or humorously.]

The act of making a speech or speeches. [Used derisively or humorously.] The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.

A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.

Splendor-bearing; splendid. Bale (1538). "A splendiferous woman." Haliburton. [Now used humorously.]

y or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. [Colloq.& Humorous]

A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement. A sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago. Sir W. Scott.

One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously. [Eng.] C. Kingsley.

e contrary, is acute, profound, and sensual, but not subtile; hence what they think to be humorous, is merely witty. Coleridge. The subtile influence of an intellect like Emerson's. Hawthorne.

To dress or smarten up; to spruce. --Tit`i*va"tion, Tit`ti*va"tion (#), n. [Both Humorous]

The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. Howell.

The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.

A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.

A pawnbroker. [Slang] Thackeray. My uncle, a pawnbroker. [Slang] - - Uncle Sam, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.