Laugheth
LAUGH, verb intransitive l'aff. [Heb.]
1. To make the noise and exhibit the features which are characteristic of mirth in the human species. Violent laughter is accompanied with a shaking of the sides, and all laughter expels breath from the lungs.
2. In poetry, to be gay; to appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, lively or brilliant.
Then laughs the childish year with flow'rets crown'd.
And o'er the foaming bowl, the laughing wine.
To laugh at, to ridicule; to treat with some degree of contempt.
No fool to laugh at, which he valued more.
To laugh to scorn, to deride; to treat with mockery, contempt and scorn. Nehemiah 2:19.
LAUGH, noun l'aff. An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species.
But feigns a laugh to see me search around, and by that laugh the willing fair is found.
LAUGHABLE, adjective l'affable. That may justly excite laughter; as a laughable story; a laughable scene.
LAUGHER, noun l'affer. One who laughs, or is fond of merriment.
The laughers are a majority.
LAUGHING, participle present tense l'affing. Expressing mirth in a particular manner.
LAUGHINGLY, adverb l'affingly. In a merry way; with laughter.
LAUGHING-STOCK, noun An object of ridicule; a butt of sport.
A time for
Ecclesiastes 3:4
Attributed to God
Psalms 37:13; Psalms 59:8; Proverbs 1:26
Happiness; Joy
LAUGHTER, noun l'affter. Convulsive merriment; an expression of mirth peculiar to man, consisting in a peculiar noise and configuration of features, with a shaking of the sides and expulsion of breath.
I said of laughter it is mad. Ecclesiastes 2:2.
LAUGH-WORTHY, adjective Deserving to be laughed at.