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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ham \Ham\ (h[aum]m), noun Home. [North of Eng.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ham \Ham\ (h[a^]m), noun [AS. ham; akin to D. ham, dial. G. hamme, OHG. hamma. Perh. named from the bend at the ham, and akin to E. chamber. Cf. {Gammon} ham.]
1. (Anat.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
2. The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking.
A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ham \Ham\ (h[a^]m), noun
1. [Short for {hamfatter}.] a person who performs in a showy or exaggerated style; -- used especially of actors. Also used attributively, as, a ham actor. [PJC]
2. The licensed operator of an amateur radio station. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ham \Ham\ (h[a^]m), verb (used without an object) (Theater) To act with exaggerated voice and gestures; to overact. [PJC]
{ham it up} to act in a showy fashion or to act so as to attract attention; to ham. [Colloq.] [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ham
noun
1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: {jambon}, {gammon}]
2: (Old Testament) son of Noah
3: a licensed amateur radio operator
4: an unskilled actor who overacts [syn: {ham actor}]
verb: exaggerate one's acting [syn: {overact}, {ham it up}, {overplay}] [ant: {underact}] [also: {hamming}, {hammed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "ham": ARRL, acting, actor-proof, all-star, amateur radio operator, ankle, bacon, ballet, balletic, bayonet legs, be theatrical, bowlegs, buffoonery, business, butt, calf, characterization, chitterlings, cinematic, cinematographic, cnemis, cochon de lait, control engineer, country town, cracklings, crossroads, declaim, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, drumstick, emote, emotionalize, fat back, film, filmic, flitch, foreleg, gag, gamb, gambrel, gammon, gigot, grimace, grimacer, gush, ham actor, ham it up, ham steak, hamlet, hammy, hammy acting, haslet, headcheese, hind leg, histrionic, hock, hoke, hokum, impersonation, jamb, jambon, jambonneau, knee, lard, leg, legitimate, limb, make a scene, melodramatic, milked, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mixer, monitor, monodramatic, movie, mug, mummery, operatic, out-herod Herod, overact, overacted, overacting, overdramatize, overplayed, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, playacting, playing, podite, popliteal space, pork, porkpie, portrayal, projection, radio electrician, radio engineer, radio operator, radio technician, radioman, radiotelegrapher, radiotrician, rant, representation, roar, salt pork, scenic, scissor-legs, sentimentalize, shank, shin, side of bacon, slapstick, slobber over, slop over, small ham, sowbelly, spectacular, spout, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, stems, stumps, stunt, suckling pig, taking a role, tarsus, theaterlike, theatrical, theatricalize, thespian, thorp, throw away, thrown away, trotters, underact, underacted, underplayed, vaudevillian, village, wick
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Ham warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning "black", the youngest son of Noah (Gen. 5:32; comp. 9:22,24). The curse pronounced by Noah against Ham, properly against Canaan his fourth son, was accomplished when the Jews subsequently exterminated the Canaanites. One of the most important facts recorded in Gen. 10 is the foundation of the earliest monarchy in Babylonia by Nimrod the grandson of Ham (6, 8, 10). The primitive Babylonian empire was thus Hamitic, and of a cognate race with the primitive inhabitants of Arabia and of Ethiopia. (See {ACCAD}.) The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of Noah in the early times of the post-diluvian world.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Ham, hot; heat; brown
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