2. Disposed to please. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- amiable, agreeable, good-humored, likable, likeable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ The ancient physicians believed that there were four humors (the blood, phlegm, yellow bile or choler, and black bile or melancholy), on the relative proportion of which the temperament and health depended. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. “A body full of humors.” Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids of the body); disposition; temper; mood; as, good humor; ill humor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Examine how your humor is inclined,
And which the ruling passion of your mind. Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

A prince of a pleasant humor. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

I like not the humor of lying. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Changing and uncertain states of mind; caprices; freaks; vagaries; whims. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humors to be endured? South. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

For thy sake I admit
That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aqueous humor,
Crystalline humor or
Crystalline 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment; to soothe; to gratify; to please. [ 1913 Webster ]

You humor me when I am sick. Pope.

Syn. -- To gratify; to indulge. See Gratify. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who has some peculiarity or eccentricity of character, which he indulges in odd or whimsical ways. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Roger de Coverley ] . . . was a great humorist in all parts of his life. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who displays humor in speaking or writing; one who has a facetious fancy or genius; a wag; a droll; especially, one who writes or tells jokes as a profession. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The reputation of wits and humorists. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

All founts wells, all deeps humorous. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rough as a storm and humorous as the wind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.

Syn. -- Jocose; facetious; witty; pleasant; merry. [ 1913 Webster ]

We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Facetiously; wittily. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Facetiousness; jocularity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Jocose; witty; humorous. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]