That which causes despair.
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
That which is despaired of.
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
To cause to despair.
A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.