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▪ I. leesome, a.1 Obs. exc. Sc.|ˈliːsəm|
Also 3 lefsum, leofsum, 6 lesum, 8 leisum,
[Early ME. leofsum, f. leof lief a. + -sum -some.]
Lovable; pleasing; pleasant.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 181 Wowe beð wunsum þeih hit ne bie naht lefsum. a1225Juliana 17 Towart te liuiende godd mi leofsume leofmon. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1858) I. 195 He culd nocht find that he had far misgane, Sen lesum wes to haif ma wyffis nor ane. 1792Burns ‘In simmer when the hay was mawn’ v, The tender heart o' leesome luve, The gowd and siller canna buy. a1800Thomas o Yonderdale x. in Child Ballads (1892) IV. 410/1 Fair and leesome blew the wind. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 62 Some gentle cushie-dows, That saw The leesome la'rick's wae.
¶b. leesome lane: a variation of lee-lane (see lee-lone). (Cf. leeful b.)
1824Scott Redgauntlet let. xi, There sat the Laird his leesome lane.
▪ II. † ˈleesome, a.2 Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 lefsum, Sc. 5–6 lesum, (6 lesume, 7 lesome), 6 leifsum (?), le(i)uesom, 6–7 leasum, leasom(e, leisoum, leisome(e, 7 leisum, 8 leesome.
[ME. lēfsum, f. lēf leave n.1 + -sum -some.]
Lawful, permissible, right.
a1400Langland's P. Pl. B. xi. 92 MS. B. [reads lefsum for licitum of other texts; MS. O has leueful]. 14..Henryson in Bannatyne Poems (1873) 611 Hir kirtill suld be of clene constance, Lasit with lesum lufe. 1513Douglas æneis iv. iii. 25 So that it lesum be Dido ramane In spousage bund. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 6079 The Secretis quhilk he saw Thay wer nocht leifsum [? leissum] for to schaw To no man. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 776 To set ane Court in leissum time and place. 1560–78Bk. Discipl. Ch. Scot. (1621) 75 Without this lawfull calling it was never leasome to any person to meddle with any function Ecclesiasticall. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 15 Puir men labouraris hauntand to thair lesum bussenes. a1600Montgomerie Sonn. lxx. 2 Blind brutal Boy, that with thy bou abuses Leill leesome love by lechery and lust. 1681Act Secur. Peace Kingd. Scot. in Lond. Gaz. No. 1648/4 His Majesty..Declares, that in this Case, it shall be leisum to Heritors to put their Tennants off their Lands. a1758Ramsay Jenny Nettles iii, The leel and leesome gate o't.
Hence ˈleesomely adv., lawfully.
1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 21 We may lesumlie desyre o' God our necessarie sustentatioun. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 46 He may lesomelie distrenzie them, for the releiue and service aucht to him for his lands. |