Word Meanings - EASY-CHAIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.
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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 - 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. - CHAIRMAN
1. The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body. 2. One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior. - CHAIRMANSHIP
The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body. - REPOSE
1. To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit. But these thy fortunes let us straight repose In this divine cave's bosom. Chapman. Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth . . . are left - REPOSEFUL
Full of repose; quiet. - REPOSER
One who reposes. - REPOSED
Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest. Bacon. -- Re*pos"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*pos"ed*ness, n. - CHAIR
pulpit, fr. L. cathedra chair, armchair, a teacher's or professor's 1. A movable single seat with a back. 2. An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical - 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. - 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. - PREPOSE
To place or set before; to prefix. Fuller. - MORRIS-CHAIR
A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised. - MANSLAUGHTER
The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton. - EASY-CHAIR
An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope. - 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.