Word Meanings - ABDERITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.

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• LAUGHINGLY
  With laughter or merriment.
• 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.
• 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.
• LAUGHSOME
  Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
• 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
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
• LAUGHWORTHY
  Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson.
• LAUGH
  hliehhan; akin to OS. hlahan, D. & G.lachen, OHG. hlahhan, lahhan, lahh, Icel. hlæja. Dan. lee, Sw. le, Goth. hlahjan; perh. of 1. To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly
• 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.
• LAUGHTERLESS
  Not laughing; without laughter.
• PHILOSOPHER
  1. One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18. 2. One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life;
• ABDERITE
  An inhabitant of Abdera, in Thrace. The Abderite, Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher.
• LAUGHER
  1. One who laughs. 2. A variety of the domestic pigeon.
• 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.
• PARANTHRACENE
  An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.
• 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.
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.
• MANSLAUGHTER
  The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.
• SELF-SLAUGHTER
  Suicide. Shak.
• SLAUGHTEROUS
  Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.
• OVERSLAUGH
  A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. Bartlett.
• ANTHRACENE
  A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its