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H U M 
Channel, near the north-eaft coaft of the ifland of 
Guernfey. 
HUM'MING,yi A low protrafted noife; the aft of 
making luch a kind of noife. 
HUM'MING-BIRD, in ornithology. See Trochilus. 
HUM'MOCK, afmall illand in the Eaftern Indian Sea: 
five leagues fouth from Mindanao. 
HUM'MOCK, f A fea-term for a little hill.—Point 
Pofleffion bore north-north-eaft about three miles dif- 
tance, and fome remarkable hummocks on the north. Hawkef- 
zoorth's Voyages. 
HUM'MUMS, f. A fweating-houfe ; a bagnio : 
And then there’s the Humviums fo nice and fo neat. 
Where they does not admit of no ladies. Beggars' Song. 
HU'MORAL, adj. Proceeding from the humours.— 
This fort of fever is comprehended unto continual humo¬ 
ral fevers. Harvey. 
HU'MORIST, f. [ humorijlo , Ital. humorijle, Fr.] One 
who condufts himfelf by his own fancy ; one who grati¬ 
fies his own humour.-—The notion of a humorijl is one 
that is greatly pleafed, or greatly difpleafed, with little 
things; his aftlons-feldom direfled by the reafon and na¬ 
ture of things. Watts. —One who has odd conceits.—The 
wit finks imperceptibly- into an humorijl. Spectator .—One 
who has violent and peculiar paflions.—By a wife and 
timeous inquifition the peccant humours and humorijls 
muft be difcovered and purged, or cut off; mercy, in fuch 
a cafe, in a king, is true cruelty. Bacon. 
HUMORIS'TI and KUMORO'SI, the names of two 
academies of learned men in Italy. 
HUMOROS'ITY, f. Moiftnefs, a fullnefs of humours. 
Cole. 
HU'MOROUS, adj. Full of grotefque or odd images.— 
Some of the commentators tell us, that Marfya was a law¬ 
yer who had loft his caufe ; others that this paffage al¬ 
ludes to the ftory of the fatyr Marfyas, who contended 
with Apollo, which I think is more humorous. Addifon. — 
Capricious; irregular ; without any rule but the prefent 
whim.—He that would learn to pafs a juft fentence on 
perfons and things, muft take heed of a fanciful temper 
of mind, and a humorous conduft in his affairs. Watts. 
Vaft is his courage, bour.dlefs in his mind, 
Rough as a ftorm, and humorous as the wind. Dryden. 
Pleafant; jocular: 
Thy humorous vein,- thy pleafing folly, 
Lies ail neglefted, all forgot; 
And penfive, wav’ring, melancholy, 
Thon dread’ft and hop’ft thou know’ft not what. Prior. 
HU'MOROUSLY, adj. Merrily ; jocofely.—A cabinet 
of medals Juvenal calls very hurnoroujly, concifum argentum in 
titulos faciefque minutas. Addifon. —Capricioufly; whimfi- 
cally.—We refolve by halves, and unadvifedly ; we refoive 
rafhly, filljly, or hurnoroujly, upon no reafons that will hold. 
Calamy. 
I-IU'MOROUSNESS, f. Ficklenefs ; capricious levity. 
Jocularity ; oddnels of conceit. 
HU'MOURSOME, adj. Peevilh; petulant.—The com¬ 
mons do not abet humourjhme factious arms ; they aver 
them to be rebellious. Burke. — Odd ; humorous. In this 
f’enfe it is lefs ufed.—Our faience cannot be much im¬ 
proved by mafquerades, where the wit of both fexes is al¬ 
together taken up in continuing lingular and humourfome 
dilguifes. Swift. 
HU'MOURSOMELY, adv. Peeviflily ; petulantly. 
HU''MGURSOM£NE 3 S, J. The ftate or quality of be¬ 
ing humourfome. 
HU'MOUR, f. SJiumeur, Fr. humor , Lat.] Moifture.— 
The aqueous humour of the eye will not freeze, which is 
very admirable, feeing it hath the perfpicuity and fluidity 
of common water. Raj.—The different kind of moifture 
in man’s body, reckoned f y the old phyftcians to be 
phlegm, blood, choler, and melancholy, which, as they 
predominated, were fuppofed to determine the temper of 
mind: 
H U M 
Believe not thefe fuggeftions, which proceed 
From anguifh of the mind and humours black. 
That mingle with thy fancy. Milton. 
General turn or temper of mind.—In cafes where it ia 
neceflary to make examples, it is the humour of the mul¬ 
titude to forget the crime, and to remember the punilh- 
ment. Addifon. 
Examine how your humour is inclin’d, 
And which the ruling paftion of your mind. Rofcommon „ 
Good humour only teaches charms to laft. 
Still makes new conquefts, and maintains the paft. Pope « 
Prefent difpofition : 
Tempt not his heavy hand; 
But one fubmiflive word which you let fall 
Will make him in good humour with us all. Dryden. 
Grotefque imagery ; jocularity ; merriment.—In conver- 
fation humour is more than wit, eafmefs more than know¬ 
ledge. Temple. —Tendency to difeafe ; morbid difpofition. 
—He denied himfelf nothing that he had a mind to eat 
or drink, which gave him a body full of humours , and 
made his fits of the gout frequent and violent. Temple.— 
Petulance ; peevifnnefs.—Is my friend all perfeftion, all 
virtue and difcretion? has he not humours to be endured, 
as well as kindnefies to be enjoyed ? South.—A trick ; a 
praftice.—I like not the humour of lying : he hath wronged 
me in fome humours: I fhould have borne the humour’d 
letter to her. Shahefpeare. —Caprice ; whim; predominant 
inclination.—In private, men are more bold in their own 
humours ; and in confort,men are more obnoxious to other’s 
humours ; therefore it is good to take both. Bacon. 
To HU'MOUR, v.a. To gratify; to fboth by compli¬ 
ance.—Children are fond of ibmething which ftrikes their 
fancy molt, and fullen and regardlefs of every thing elfe, 
if they are not humoured in that fancy. Watts. 
You humour me when I am fick; 
Why not when I am fplenetic ? Pope. 
To fit; to comply with.—’Tis my part to invent, and 
the muficians to humour that invention. Dryden. 
To after-age thou ihalt be writ the man 
That with lmooth air could humour belt our tongue. Milton. 
HU'MOURING, f. The aft of complying with any 
one’s humour; the aft of foothing by compliance. 
HUMP, f. [corrupted perhaps from hump.. See Bump.] 
The protuberance formed by a crooked back.—Thefe de- 
fefts were mended by matches; the eyes were opened in 
the next generation, and the hump fell. Tatler. 
HUMP-BACK, f. Crooked back; high {boulders.— 
The chief of the family was born with a hump-bach and 
very high nofe. Tatler. 
HUMP'-BACKED, adj. Having'a crooked back. 
HUMP'-SHOULDERED, adj. Having high ihoulders, 
Scott. 
HUMPHREYS (Laurence), a learned Englifii divine, 
born at Newport-Pagnell, in Buckingham (hire, about the 
year 1527. He was entered at Cambridge; but, being af¬ 
terwards removed to Oxford, in 154.7 he was chofen a 
demy of Magdalen college in that univerfity. In 154.9, 
he was admitted to the degree of B. A. and was alio 
defied a fellow of his college. Having proceeded M. A. 
in 1552, he was made Greek reader of his college. In 
1560, he was conftituted by queen Elizabeth profefior of 
divinity at Oxford ; and in the following year was elefted 
prefident of his college. . In 1562, he firft took his dpgree 
of bachelor, and afterwards that of doftor of divinity. 
In 1570, he was created dean of Gloucester; and in 1580, 
he -was removed to the deanery of Winchefter. The 
greateft part of his time he fpent in a ftudious and retired 
manner, and died in 1589, aged fixty-three years. He 
was the author of, 1. Epifiola de Gracis Literis, & Homeri 
LeSiione & Imitatione, prefixed to a book of Hadrian Junius, 
1 entitled,. 
