Word Meanings - LAUGHSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.

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• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• LAUGHTER
  A movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• EXCITATION
  The act of producing excitement ; also, the excitement produced. (more info) 1. The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.
• EXCITABILITY
  The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability. (more info) 1. The quality of being readily excited;
• EXCITATOR
  A kind of discarder.
• EXCITATE
  To excite. Bacon.
• MERRY
  mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige, pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short, Goth. gamaúrgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the Anglo-Saxon and
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• EXCITO-NUTRIENT
  Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
• ADDICT
  Addicted; devoted.
• EXCITO-SECRETORY
  Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
• EXCITANT
  An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.
• LAUGHTERLESS
  Not laughing; without laughter.
• MERRYMAKER
  One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
• ADDICTEDNESS
  The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
• MERRYMEETING
  A meeting for mirth.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• MANSLAUGHTER
  The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.
• OVEREXCITE
  To excite too much.
• SELF-SLAUGHTER
  Suicide. Shak.
• SLAUGHTEROUS
  Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.