Humour - Definition

n 1: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state
of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on
his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" [syn:
temper, mood, humor, humour]
2: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has
the power to evoke laughter [syn: wit, humor, humour,
witticism, wittiness]
3: (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose
balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical
state; "the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black
bile" [syn: humor, humour]
4: the liquid parts of the body [syn: liquid body substance,
bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour]
5: the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
[syn: humor, humour]
6: the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the
humorous; "she didn't appreciate my humor"; "you can't
survive in the army without a sense of humor" [syn: humor,
humour, sense of humor, sense of humour]
v 1: put into a good mood [syn: humor, humour]