Wit: alternatives and connections

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…

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An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.

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A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco panti…

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Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

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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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The act of imitating.

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Alt. of Impersonification

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Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.

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To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.

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A deed; an action; a gest.

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A witticism.

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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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of Mot

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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The quality or state of being pungent or piercing; keenness; sharpness; piquancy; as, the pungency of ammonia.

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A smart, ready, and witty reply.

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The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer,…

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A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.

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A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves re…

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An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a repres…

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That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

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Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.

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The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

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Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.

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One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.

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Moist; humid; watery.

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Moist; humid; watery.

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The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous…

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A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game play…

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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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Quality or state of mind.

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To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the…

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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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