1. DROLL, N.
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1. A funny or waggish fellow; a merry-andrew, buffoon, jester,
humorist.

    {dag}2. A comic or farcical composition or representation; a farce;
an enacted piece of buffoonery; a puppet-show. Obs.

    {dag}b. The acting of farces. Obs.

    {dag}3. The action of making jest or sport; jesting; burlesque
writing or style. Obs.

    4. attrib. and Comb., as {dag}droll-booth, -house, a place where
drolls were acted (obs.); droll-teller.

2. DROLL, A.
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1. Intentionally facetious, amusing, comical, funny. {dag}droll
painting, caricature; d. painter, caricaturist.

    2. Unintentionally amusing; queer, quaint, odd, strange, `funny'.

    Hence {sm}drollity, the quality of being droll; concr. a droll
thing; {sm}drollness.

3. DROLL, V.
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1. intr. To make sport or fun; to jest, joke; to play the buffoon.
Const. with, at, on, upon.

    2. trans. To jest (a thing) away, off; {dag}to jest (a person) out
of or into something (obs.); to bring forth after the manner of a jester
or buffoon.

    Hence {sm}drolling vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also {sm}drollingly adv.;
jestingly, so as to make a jest of it; {dag}{sm}droller, {dag}{sm}drollist,
a professed facetious person; a jester, buffoon.