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humor
  • n  a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
  • n  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
  • n  a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
    he was in a bad humor
  • n  the quality of being funny
    I fail to see the humor in it
  • n  (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
  • n  the liquid parts of the body
  • v  put into a good mood
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humoral immune response
  • n  an immune response (chiefly against bacterial invasion) that is mediated by B cells
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humoring
  • n  the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
  • v  put into a good mood
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humour
  • n  a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
  • n  a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
  • n  (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state
  • n  the liquid parts of the body
  • n  the quality of being funny
  • n  the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous
  • v  put into a good mood
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humous
  • n  a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East
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hump
  • n  something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
    the hump of a camel
  • v  round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
  • v  have sexual intercourse with
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humpback
  • n  an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column
  • n  a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
  • n  large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
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humpback whale
  • n  large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives
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humperdinck
  • n  German composer of six operas and other incidental music (1854-1921)
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humphrey davy
  • n  English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
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humphrey deforest bogart
  • n  United States film actor (1899-1957)
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humphrey gilbert
  • n  English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
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