Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HU'MOR, v.t.

1. To gratify by yielding to particular inclination, humor, wish or desire; to indulge by compliance. We sometimes humor children to their injury or ruin. The sick, the infirm, and the aged often require to be humored.
2. To suit; to indulge; to favor by imposing no restraint, and rather contributing to promote by occasional aids. We say, an actor humors his part, or the piece. It is my part to invent, and that of the musicians to humor that invention. Dryden.