Chapter Humbugger to Hunchback of H by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Hummer
(Hum"mer) n.

1. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth.

2. (Zoöl.) A humming bird.

Humming
(Hum"ming) a. Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.

Humming
(Hum"ming), n. A sound like that made by bees; a low, murmuring sound; a hum.

Hummingale, lively or strong ale. Dryden. — Humming bird (Zoöl.), any bird of the family Trochilidæ, of which over one hundred genera are known, including about four hundred species. They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics. They are mostly of very small size, and are noted for their very brilliant colors and peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise. They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects. The common humming bird or ruby-throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris. Several other species are found in the Western United States. See Calliope, and Ruby-throat. — Humming-bird moth (Zoöl.), a hawk moth. See Hawk moth, under Hawk, the bird.

Hummock
(Hum"mock) n. [Prob. a dim. of hump. See Hump.]

1. A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface.

2. A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field.

3. Timbered land. See Hammock. [Southern U.S.]

Hummocking
(Hum"mock*ing), n. The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.

Hummocky
(Hum"mock*y) a. Abounding in hummocks.

Hummum
(Hum"mum) n. [Per. or Ar. hamman.] A sweating bath or place for sweating. Sir T. Herbert.

Humor
(Hu"mor) n. [OE. humour, OF. humor, umor, F. humeur, L. humor, umor, moisture, fluid, fr. humere, umere, to be moist. See Humid.] [Written also humour.]

1. Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

The ancient physicians believed that there were four humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion of which the temperament and health depended.

2. (Med.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple.

3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor.

Examine how your humor is inclined,
And which the ruling passion of your mind.

Roscommon.

A prince of a pleasant humor.

Bacon.

I like not the humor of lying.

Shak.

4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims.

Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humors to be endured?

South.