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<blockquote>I like not the <b>humor</b> of lying. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.</def>

<blockquote>Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not <b>humors</b> to be endured? <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.</def>

<blockquote>For thy sake I admit That a Scot may have <b>humor</b>, I'd almost said wit. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A great deal of excellent <b>humor</b> was expended on the perplexities of mine host. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>Aqueous humor</col>, <col>Crystalline humor</col> &or; <col>lens</col>, <col>Vitreous humor</col></mcol>. <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Eye</er>.</cd> -- <col>Out of humor</col>, <cd>dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood; frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See <er>Wit</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Hu"mor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Humored</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Humoring</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; <as>as, to <ex>humor</ex> the mind</as>.</def>

<blockquote>It is my part to invent, and the musician's to <b>humor</b> that invention. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.</def>

<blockquote>You <b>humor</b> me when I am sick. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To gratify; to indulge. See <er>Gratify</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Hu"mor*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>humoral</ets>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; <as>as, a <ex>humoral</ex> fever</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Humoral pathology</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.</cd></cs><-- antiquated -->

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<hw>Hu"mor*al*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>The state or quality of being humoral.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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<hw>Hu"mor*al*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.</def>

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<hw>Hu"mor*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.</def>

<i>Dunglison.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness.</def>

<i>Coleridge.</i>