Word Meanings - FACETIAE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.

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• SAYING
  That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. Many are the sayings of the wise, In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton. Syn. -- Declaration; speech; adage; maxim; aphorism; apothegm;
• SAYMAN
  One who assays.
• 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
• WITTY
  1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak. 2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem,
• HUMOROUSLY
  1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily.
• MERRY
  A kind of wild red cherry.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• SAYER
  One who says; an utterer. Mr. Curran was something much better than a sayer of smart sayings. Jeffrey.
• MERRYMAKER
  One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
• MERRYMEETING
  A meeting for mirth.
• HUMOROUS
  1. Moist; humid; watery. All founts wells, all deeps humorous. Chapman. 2. Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical. Hawthorne. Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind. Dryden. 3. Full of humor; jocular;
• SAYMASTER
  A master of assay; one who tries or proves. "Great saymaster of state." D. Jonson.
• SAY
  1. A kind of silk or satin. Thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord! Shak. 2. A delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth. His garment neither was of silk nor say. Spenser.
• SAYETTE
  A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy.
• SAYND
  obs. p. p. of Senge, to singe. Chaucer.
• MERRYTHOUGHT
  The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum. Note: It is a sportive custom for two persons to break this bone by pulling the ends apart to see who will get the longer piece, the securing of which is regarded as a lucky
• HUMOROUSNESS
  1. Moodiness; capriciousness. 2. Facetiousness; jocularity.
• MERRY-GO-ROUND
  Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• VISAYAN
  A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• ESSAYER
  One who essays. Addison.
• GAINSAY
  To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• MISSAY
  1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
• ESSAY
  A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. 3. An assay. See Assay, n.
• GAINSAYER
  One who gainsays, contradicts, or denies. "To convince the gainsayers." Tit. i. 9.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• ESSAYIST
  A writer of an essay, or of essays. B. Jonson.
• ASSAY TON
  A weight of 29.166 + grams used in assaying, for convenience. Since it bears the same relation to the milligram that a ton of 2000 avoirdupois pounds does to the troy ounce, the weight in milligrams of precious metal obtained from an assay ton of
• HEARSAY
  Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another. Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the memory of our great national poet originated in frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation. Prof. Wilson. Hearsay evidence ,