To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.
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Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.
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One who howls.
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Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
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To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
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Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.
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the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
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of Wit
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A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.
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The quality of being witty.
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To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…
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A deed; an action; a gest.
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Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a wit…
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To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the fa…
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