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by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er. Shak. He laugheth that winneth. Heywood's Prov.

Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene.

One who laughs.

from Laugh, v. i. Laughing falcon (Zoöl.), a South American hawk (Herpetotheres cachinnans); -- so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laughing. -- Laughing gas (Chem.), hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen; -- so called from the exhilaration and laughing which it sometimes produces when inhaled. It…

With laughter or merriment.

ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay.

Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry. [R.]

, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i. The act of laughter, which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves. Sir T. Browne. Archly the mai…

Not laughing; without laughter.

Deserving to be laughed at. [R.] B. Jonson.

A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw. Pope.

The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.

An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras.

To surpass or outdo in laughing. Dryden.

A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

Suicide. Shak.

he extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton.

One who slaughters.

A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

One employed in slaughtering. Shak.