Word Meanings - INTERVALLUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
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- LAUGHINGLY
With laughter or merriment. - INTERVALLUM
An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth. - SHALLOP
A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails. - 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. - LAUGH
1. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy Shak. I shall laugh myself to death. Shak. 2. To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out. From his deep chest laughs out - LAUGHABLE
Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv. - INTERVAL
Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone. - LAUGHSOME
Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - SHALLOON
A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift. - SHALLOW-BRAINED
Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South. - LAUGHING
from Laugh, v. i. Laughing falcon , a South American hawk ; -- so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laughing. -- Laughing gas , hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen; -- so called from the exhilaration and laughing which it - THESE
The plural of this. See This. - SHALLOW-WAISTED
Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel. - SHALLOW
schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone. - LAUGHWORTHY
Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson. - SHALLOT
A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot. - LAUGHINGSTOCK
An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay. - SHALL
sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll, - OUTLAUGH
1. To surpass or outdo in laughing. Dryden. 2. To laugh out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down. His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity. Franklin. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - ONSLAUGHT
1. An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras. 2. A bloody fray or battle. Jamieson. - MANSLAUGHTER
The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.