HUMOUR
\hjˈuːmə], \hjˈuːmə], \h_j_ˈuː_m_ə]\
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the liquid parts of the body
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the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
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the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
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a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
By Princeton University
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the liquid parts of the body
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the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't survive in the army without a sense of humor"
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the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
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one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed (in ancient and medieval physiology) to determine your emotional and physical state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile"
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a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Every fluid substance of an organized body; - as the blood, chyle, lymph, &c. The Humours, , Chymi, Humores, differ considerably as to number and quality in the different species of organized beings; and even in the same species, according to the state of health or disease. The ancients reduced them to four; which they called cardinal humours :-the blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and atrabilis or black bile. A modern classification of the humours is given under Fluid.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [French, Latin] Moisture; especially, the moisture or fluids of animal bodies;—a vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin;—an eruptive affection of the skin; a rash;—state of mind (formerly fancied to depend on the condition of the fluids of the body); temper;—freak; whim; caprice; fancy;—petulance; peevishness;—jocularity; merriment; pleasantry;—that quality of the imagination which gives to ideas a ludicrous or grotesque turn, and evokes mirth and laughter.
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Moisture; the different kinds of moisture in man’s body; general turn or temper of mind; present disposition; grotesque imagery, jocularity, merriment; diseased or morbid disposition; petulance, peevishness; a trick; caprice, whim, predominant inclination.
By Thomas Sheridan
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