cachinnate

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Telegrams crackle, Joint Chiefs harrumph, orders arrive, engines clamor, machine guns cachinnate, and sure enough, the first dead man on Omaha Beach turns out to be-Garner.

From Time Magazine Archive

They reach at once and directly the instinctive sense of the ludicrous, and over them youth and age cachinnate together.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 by Various

Every time you take a full breath, or when you cachinnate well, the diaphragm descends and gives the stomach an extra squeeze and shakes it.

From Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Marden, Orison Swett