Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A deed; an action.

2. (n.) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.

3. (n.) Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase.

4. (n.) The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.

5. (v. i.) To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.

6. (v. i.) To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.