Shak.
4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks;
vagaries; whims.
Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not
humors to be endured?
South.
5. That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous
or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous
images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness.
For thy sake I admit That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said
wit.
Goldsmith.
A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of
mine host.
W. Irving.
Aqueous humor, Crystalline humor or lens, Vitreous humor. (Anat.) See
Eye. -- Out of humor, dissatisfied; displeased; in an unpleasant frame
of mind.
Syn. -- Wit; satire; pleasantry; temper; disposition; mood; frame;
whim; fancy; caprice. See Wit.
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Hu"mor (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Humoring.]
1. To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the
peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to
indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind.
It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that
invention.
Dryden.
2. To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to
gratify; to please.
You humor me when I am sick.
Pope.
Syn. -- To gratify; to indulge. See Gratify.
Hu"mor*al (?), a. [Cf. F. humoral.] Pertaining to, or proceeding from,
the humors; as, a humoral fever.
Humoral pathology (Med.), the pathology, or doctrine of the nature of
diseases, which attributes all morbid phenomena to the disordered
condition of the fluids or humors of the body.
Hu"mor*al*ism (?), n. 1. (Med.) The state or quality of being humoral.
2. (Med.) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism.
[Obs.]
Hu"mor*al*ist, n. One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in
humoralism.
Hu"mor*ism (?), n. 1. (Med.) The theory founded on the influence which
the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease;
Galenism. Dunglison.