laughter

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

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.
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