Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LAUGH'TER
LAUGH'TER, n. [l'affter.]
Convulsive merriment; an expression of mirth peculiar to man, consisting in a peculiar noise and configuration of features, with a shaking of the sides and expulsion of breath. I said of laughter, it is mad. Eccles. ii.
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