Meanings
- dateduncountableDated form of laughing gas.
Exhibition of the effects of the Laughing-Gas! which Mons. Henry will administer to any of the audience who may be disposed to inhale it—[…]
1824 November 12, “[…] On Monday Evening Next, November 15, 1824, Mr. W. H. Williams, […] and Mons. Henry, […] Most Respectfully Announces^([sic]) […] that They Intend to Open the Theatre, on the Above Evening, with Their Popular Entertainments, […]”, in Coventry Herald, and Weekly Advertiser, number LXV (New Series), Coventry, →OCLC, page [3], column 32 more examples
[T]he lecture begins at 8 precisely; and is this evening on Digestion, and the different kinds of food; the experiments and explanation of the different gases, at 9, when the laughing-gas will be positively inhaled.
1819 October 20, “Advertisement”, in The Times, number 10,755, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page [3], column 4When you’ve got 10 minutes to air time, and you need six or eight contestants, and you want the show to be the funniest one yet, and you can’t find a soul in the house who looke^([sic]) like he could get a smile in a room full of laughing-gas—brother, you’re in trouble!
1960 July 10, Bob Barker, “Audience Participation Shows Can Be Mayhem”, in Bristol Herald Courier Combined Sundays with the Bristol Virginia-Tennessean, 89th year, number 21387, Bristol, Va.; Bristol, Tenn., →OCLC, page 4 B, column 3
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