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

5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.

For thy sake I admit
That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit.

Goldsmith.

A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host.

W. Irving.

Aqueous humor, Crystalline humoror lens, Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See Eye. — Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame of mind.

Syn. — Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood; frame; whim; fancy; caprice. See Wit.

Humor
(Hu"mor) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Humoring.]

1. To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.

It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention.

Dryden.

2. To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please.

You humor me when I am sick.

Pope.

Syn. — To gratify; to indulge. See Gratify.

Humoral
(Hu"mor*al) a. [Cf. F. humoral.] Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the humors; as, a humoral fever.

Humoral pathology (Med.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered condition of the fluids or humors of the body.

Humoralism
(Hu"mor*al*ism) n.

1. (Med.) The state or quality of being humoral.

2. (Med.) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism. [Obs.]

Humoralist
(Hu"mor*al*ist), n. One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.

Humorism
(Hu"mor*ism) n.

1. (Med.) The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism. Dunglison.

2. The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness. Coleridge.

Humorist
(Hu"mor*ist), n. [Cf. F. humoriste.]

1. (Med.) One who attributes diseases of the state of the humors.

2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways.

He [Roger de Coverley] . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life.

Addison.