1. [n]  meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
2. [n]  an unskilled actor who overacts
3. [n]  a licensed amateur radio operator
4. [n]  (Old Testament) son of Noah
5. [v]  exaggerate one's acting

1. \Ham\, n.
   Home. [North of Eng.] --Chaucer.
   
   

2. \Ham\, n. [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
            ham.                                  --Shak.
   
   

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.