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Moist; humid; watery. [Obs.] All founts wells, all deeps humorous. Chapman.

Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy.

Moodiness; capriciousness.

The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good- humored raillery; pleasantry. Part banter, part affection. Tennyson.

Liquor made from barley; strong ale. [Humorous] [Scot.] Burns.

to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.

A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. [Humorous]

The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]

ong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.]

The stomach. [Humorous] S. Foote.

A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]

ing bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them. -- John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." W. D.Howells. -- To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

-- Cabbage head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. -- Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. -- Cabbage rose (Bot.), a species of ro…

A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.

rroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous]

To rhyme. [Humorous]. Cowper.

Suitable for membership in a club; sociable. [Humorous.] G. W. Curtis.

A chief man; a leader or master. [Humorous] Sir Andrew is the cock of the club, since he left us. Addison.

A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation. [Colloq.] A few of us old codgers met at the fireside. Emerson.

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