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Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.

ous outcry or shouting, as in mirth. Pit, boxes, and galleries were in a constant roar of laughter. Macaulay.

cal term for a spasmodic affection of the muscles of the face, giving it an appearance of laughter.

jocose in language; scurrilous; as, scurrile taunts. The wretched affectation of scurrile laughter. Cowley. A scurrile or obscene jest will better advance you at the court of Charles than father's ancient name. Sir W. Scott.

as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray. You would have sold your king to slaughter. Shak.

slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence. You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude. Shak. A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up early, and goeSouth.

A place for slaughtering animals for meat. To make a shambles of the parliament house. Shak.

To strike down; to slaughter. [Prov. Eng.]

To laugh with audible catches of voice, as when persons attempt to suppress loud laughter.

. his spence, or "pantry" were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately slaughtered. Sir W. Scott. Bluff Harry broke into the spence, And turned the cowls adrift. Tennyson.

to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood. And to revenge his blood so justly spilt. Dryden.

A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment. [Obs.] Thy silly thought enforces my spleen. Shak.

To burst with laughter. [Colloq.] Each had a gravity would make you split. Pope.

characterization. The blackest stigma that can be fastened upon him. Bp. Hall. All such slaughters were from thence called Bartelmies, simply in a perpetual stigma of that butchery. Sir G. Buck.

To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you tickle us, do we not laugh Shak.

d to our parents; a dislike to spirituous liquor. Marks and points out each man of us to slaughter. B. Jonson. Whilst they, distilled Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. Shak. Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; a…

rts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round. Thence the catch and troll, while "Laughter, holding both his sides," sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life. Prof. Wilson.

A half-suppressed laugh; a fit of laughter partially restrained; a titter; a giggle. Hudibras.

To recall, as former laughter. [Obs. & R.] Sir T. More.

ed; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.