Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.