Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HU'MOR-AL, a.

Pertaining to or proceeding from the humors; as, a humoral fever. Harvey. Humoral pathology, that pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors. Cyc.

HU'MOR-AL-ISM, n.

1. State of being humoral. Caldwell.
2. The doctrine that diseases have their seat in the humors.

HU'MOR-AL-IST, n.

One who favors the humoral pathology.

HU'MOR-ED, pp.

Indulged; favored.

HU'MOR-ING, pp.

Indulging a particular wish or propensity; favoring; contributing to aid by falling into a design or course.

HU'MOR-ISM, n.

The state of the humors.

HU'MOR-IST, n.

1. One who conducts himself by his own inclination, or bent of mind; one who gratifies his own humor. The humorist is one that is greatly pleased or greatly displeased with little things; his actions seldom directed by the reason and nature of things. Watts.
2. One that indulges humor in speaking or writing; one who has a playful fancy or genius. [See Humor, No. 4.]
3. One who has odd conceits; also, a wag; a droll. Hall. Bodley.

HU'MOR-LESS, a.

Destitute of humor.

HU'MOR-OUS, a.

1. Containing humor; full of wild or fanciful images; adapted to excite laughter; jocular; as, a humorous essay; a humorous story.
2. Having the power to speak or write in the style of humor; fanciful; playful; exciting laughter; as, a humorous man or author.
3. Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical. I am known to be a humorous patrician. Shak. Rough as a storm, and humorous as the wind. Dryden.
4. Moist; humid. [Not in use.]. Drayton.

HU'MOR-OUS-LY, adv.

1. With a wild or grotesque combination of ideas; in a manner to excite laughter or mirth; pleasantly; jocosely. Addison describes humorously the manual exercise of ladies, fans.
2. Capriciously; whimsically; in conformity with one's humor. We resolve by halves, rashly and humorously. Calamy.

HU'MOR-OUS-NESS, n.

1. The state or quality of being humorous; oddness of conceit; jocularity.
2. Fickleness; capriciousness.
3. Peevishness; petulance. Goodman.

HU'MOR-SOME, a.

1. Peevish; petulant; influenced by the humor of the moment. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke.
2. Odd; humorous; adapted to excite laughter. Swift.

HU'MOR-SOME-LY, adv.

1. Peevishly; petulantly. Johnson.
2. Oddly; humorously.

HUMP, n. [L. umbo.]

The protuberance formed by a crooked back; as, a camel with one hump, or two humps.

HUMP'BACK, n.

A crooked back; high shoulders. Tatler.

HUMP'BACK-ED, a.

Having a crooked back.

HUNCH, n. [See the Verb.]

1. A hump; a protuberance; as, the hunch of a camel.
2. A lump; a thick piece; as, a hunch of bread; a word in common vulgar use in New England.
3. A push or jerk with the fist or elbow.

HUNCH, v.t.

1. To push with the elbow; to push or thrust with a sudden jerk.
2. To push out in a protuberance; to crook the back. Dryden.

HUNCH'BACK-ED, a.

Having a crooked back. L'Estrange. Dryden.

HUNCH'ED, pp.

Pushed or thrust with the fist or elbow.

HUNCH'ING, pp.

Pushing with the fist or elbow.

HUND'RED, a. [Sax. hund or hundred; Goth. hund; D. honderd; G. hundert; Sw. hundra; Dan. hundre, hundred; L. centum; W. cant, a circle, the hoop of a wheel, the rim of any thing, a complete circle or series, a hundred; Corn. canz; Arm. cant; Ir. ceantr. Lye, in his Saxon and Gothic Dictionary, suggests that this word hund is a mere termination of the Gothic word for ten; taihun-taihund, ten times ten. But this can not be true, for the word is found in the Celtic as well as Gothic dialects, and in the Arabic هَنْدُ hand, Class Gn, No. 63; at least this is probably the same word. The Welsh language exhibits the true sense of the word, which is a circle, a complete series. Hence W. cantrev, a division of a county, or circuit, a canton, a hundred. See Canton. The word signifies a circuit, and the sense of hundred is secondary. The centuria of the Romans, and the hundred, a division of a county in England, might have been merely a division, and not an exact hundred in number.]

Denoting the product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; as, a hundred men.

HUND'RED, n.

1. A collection, body or sum, consisting of ten times ten individuals or units; the number 100.
2. A division or part of a county in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or a hundred warriors, or a hundred manors. [But as the word denotes primarily a circuit or division, it is not certain that Alfred's divisions had any reference to that number.]

HUND'RED-COURT, n.

In England, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. Blackstone.

HUND'RED-ER, n.

1. In England, a man who may be of a jury in any controversy respecting land within the hundred to which he belongs.
2. One having the jurisdiction of a hundred.