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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Laughing" Quotes from Famous Books

... again, certainly we shall see each other and shall tell each other with joy and gladness all that has happened!" Alyosha answered, half laughing, half enthusiastic. ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... so until yesterday," answered Andy. "But no—they have their troubles, like other people. This poor, sorrowful fellow has his fill of it. He don't do much laughing outside of the ring, I can tell you. There, we'll enjoy the cook's ...

— Andy the Acrobat • Peter T. Harkness

... admitted.* Here I am inclined to think that she had touched with her ring (as the custom was) a RELIC of St. Catherine at Fierbois. Such relics, brought from the monastery of Sinai, lay at Fierbois, and we know that women loved to rub their rings on the ring of Jeanne, in spite of her laughing remonstrances. But apart from this conjecture, she regarded her saints as tangible by her. She had embraced both St. Margaret and ...

— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang

... chiselled. How grandly the quarry of vast marbles is disclosed! Mr. Ruskin seems to me one of the few genuine writers, as distinguished from book-makers, of this age. His earnestness even amuses me in certain passages; for I cannot help laughing to think how utilitarians will fume and fret over his deep, serious (and as THEY will think), fanatical reverence for Art. That pure and severe mind you ascribed to him speaks in every line. He writes like a consecrated Priest of the Abstract ...

— The Life of Charlotte Bronte • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... down the tracks impatiently. "I hope we don't miss a trolley car every day of those twenty years," she said, laughing. ...

— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

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