Word Meanings - LAUGHTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. See Laugh, v. i. The act of laughter, which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves. Sir T. Browne. Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter. Longfellow.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• INDICATOR
  A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at
• INDICATIVELY
  In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• INTERRUPT
  1. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• ATTEND
  L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.
• INTERRUPTED
  Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf. (more info) 1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
• EXPULSION
  1. The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc. The expulsion of the Tarquins. Shak. 2. The state of being expelled or driven out.
• SATISFACTION
  1. The act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied; gratification of desire; contentment in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with its desires or demands. The mind having a power to suspend the execution
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• EXPRESSIONAL
  Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
• ATTENDANCE
  1. Attention; regard; careful application. Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times
• EXPRESSIONLESS
  Destitute of expression.
• INTERRUPTIVE
  Tending to interrupt; interrupting. "Interruptive forces." H. Bushnell. -- In`ter*rupt"ive*ly, adv.
• INDICATED
  Shown; denoted; registered; measured. Indicated power. See Indicated horse power, under Horse power.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• TORSION INDICATOR
  An autographic torsion meter.
• UNSATISFACTION
  Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
• VINDICATION
  The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
• INSATISFACTION
  1. Insufficiency; emptiness. Bacon. 2. Dissatisfaction. Sir T. Browne.
• VINDICATOR
  One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. Locke.
• CONTRAINDICATE
  To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.
• VINDICATE
  1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain