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Laughing   /lˈæfɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
Laughing  adj., n.  From Laugh, v. i.
Laughing falcon (Zool.), a South American hawk (Herpetotheres cachinnans); so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laugh.
Laughing gas (Chem.), nitrous oxide, also called hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen; so called from the exhilaration and laughing which it sometimes produces when inhaled. It has been much used as an anaesthetic agent, though now its use is primarily in dentistry
Laughing goose (Zool.), the European white-fronted goose.
Laughing gull. (Zool.)
(a)
A common European gull (Xema ridibundus); called also pewit, black cap, red-legged gull, and sea crow.
(b)
An American gull (Larus atricilla). In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black.
Laughing hyena (Zool.), the spotted hyena. See Hyena.
Laughing jackass (Zool.), the great brown kingfisher (Dacelo gigas), of Australia; called also giant kingfisher, and gogobera.
Laughing owl (Zool.), a peculiar owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of extinction. The name alludes to its notes.






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"Laughing" Quotes from Famous Books



... a young footman a surprising piece of news, which he in turn confided to the incredulous Jepson. Young Mr. Bangs, who was lunching with Mrs. Ordway, must be as amusing as young Mr. Devon himself. He had actually made the mistress laugh both times he came. She was laughing now, as Susanne had not heard her laugh for weeks. To be sure, this was one of her good days. But it wasn't easy to amuse Mrs. ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan

... leaned against the priest's shoulder, and laughed. "I am laughing," he said, "not from lightness of mind, but from the depth of surprise and of joy that you should so think of me. It was a dream which once I had; but impossible! you do not think that I, weak I, shall ever be able to do more ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman

... wallow, where the grass and mud had been trampled into a clay floor by the hoofs of hundreds of wild animals. But the fact that they were to sleep where at sunrise and at sunset came buffaloes, elephants, and panthers, disturbed the women not at all, and as they bent, laughing, over the iron pots, the firelight shone on their bare shoulders and was reflected from their white teeth and rolling ...
— The Congo and Coasts of Africa • Richard Harding Davis

... the stumps of obtruncated trees, and others more artfully made with intertwining branches, or perhaps an imitation of such frail handiwork in iron. In a central part of the Garden is an archery-ground, where laughing maidens practise at the butts, generally missing their ostensible mark, but, by the mere grace of their action, sending an unseen shaft into some young man's heart. There is space, moreover, within these ...
— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... evenly, "in common with all humanity I am compound of man and woman, I can resent the enmity which drives me from shore to shore, but being myself a connoisseur of the red lips and laughing eyes of maidenhood—I am thinking, more particularly of Myra—I ...
— Brood of the Witch-Queen • Sax Rohmer


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