| laugh |
verb i. |
To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter., Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport., To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule., To express by, or utter with, laughter; — with out., An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i. |