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ntemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision called. 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.

en it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heaving breast disgorge the briny draught. Dryden.

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.

; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness. Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness. South.

An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.]

he elements of granite. The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn. Jowett (Thucyd.).

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.

cking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at. Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout. Swift.

y action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits. High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore. Dryden.