Two factory workers are talking.
The woman says, "I can make the boss give me the day off."
The man replies, "And how would you do that?"
The woman says, "Just wait and see." She then hangs upside-down from the ceiling.
The boss comes in and says, "What are you doing?"
The woman replies, "I"m a light bulb."
The boss then says, "You"ve been working so much that you"ve gone crazy. I think you need to take the day off."
The man starts to follow her and the boss says, "Where are you going?"
The man says, "I"m going home, too. I can"t work in the dark."
n. Election campaign or proceedings. [old english, = house of assembly, from old norse]
HYACINTH
n. - bulbous plant with racemes of bell-shaped (esp. Purplish-blue) fragrant flowers.
- purplish-blue. [greek huakinthos]
HYDROGEN
bomb n. Immensely powerful bomb utilizing the explosive fusion of hydrogen nuclei.
- n. Tasteless odourless gas, the lightest element, occurring in water and all organic compounds. hydrogenous adj. [french: related to *hydro-, *-gen]
- peroxide n. Viscous unstable liquid with strong oxidizing properties.
- sulphide n. Poisonous unpleasant-smelling gas formed by rotting animal matter.
HYDROXYL
n. (attrib.) Univalent group containing hydrogen and oxygen.
HYOSCINE
n. Poisonous alkaloid found in plants of the nightshade family, used to prevent motion sickness etc. [greek huoskuamos henbane from hus huos pig, kuamos bean]
HYPNOSIS
n. - state like sleep in which the subject acts only on external suggestion.
- artificially produced sleep. [greek hupnos sleep]
HYPNOTIC
—adj. - of or producing hypnosis.
- inducing sleep. —n. Hypnotic drug or influence. hypnotically adv. [greek: related to *hypnosis]
HYSTERIA
n. - wild uncontrollable emotion or excitement.
- functional disturbance of the nervous system, of psychoneurotic origin. [greek hustera womb]
HYSTERIC
n. - (in pl.) A fit of hysteria. B colloq. Overwhelming laughter (we were in hysterics).
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