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▪ I. lightsome, a.1|ˈlaɪtsəm|
[f. light a.1 + -some. Cf. MHG. lîhtsam.]
1. Having the effect or appearance of lightness; now chiefly with reference to form, light, graceful, elegant. † Also, in early use, easy. Somewhat rare.
c1440Promp. Parv. 304/2 Lyghtesum, or esy (K. lihtsum), facilis. 1578Chr. Prayers 77 b, Let thy yoke become sweete and thy burthen lightsom to me through thy crosse. 1634–5Brereton Trav. (1844) 179 The pillars as strong as any I have seen..but nothing neat or lightsome. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 19 Nothing contributes more to a Horse's being easy upon the Rider's Hand, than a lightsome Fore-End, and thin Shoulders. 1759B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I, I. of Wight 123 The Air of Newport is lightsome and pleasant. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 14 Snowy blossoms..so lightsome, and yet so rich! a1851Moir Poems, Angler ii, His hat of whitest straw, Lightsome of wear. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iv. 116 The lofty tower, straight and lightsome as a lily.
2. Not weighed down by care, pain, or sorrow; light-hearted, cheerful, merry; also, enlivening, entertaining.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 956 With ladies and with bacheleres, Ful lightsom and [ful] glad of cheres. c1400Beryn 2973 Hir thouȝtis..did hir peyn to make liȝtsom chere. 1590T. Watson Eclog. Death Walsingham 121 That lightsome vaine is changd from youth to aged grauitie. 1657Sparrow Bk. Com. Prayer (1661) 389 White garments..suit fitly with that lightsome affection of joy. 1679C. Nesse Antid. agst. Popery 202 A lightsome story of a French gentleman..being asked merrily [etc.]. 1712Steele Spect. No. 547 ⁋12, I now find myself chearful, lightsome and easy. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xcii, Greece is no lightsome land of social mirth. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xvii, Lightsome sangs make merry gate. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. ii. 39 The merry-makers were dancing..a lightsome crowd, with garlands and greenery.
b. Flighty, frivolous.
1533Sir T. More in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. II. 52 Not uppon the fallible opinion or sone spoken words of lightsome chaungeable peple. 1800A. Carlyle Autobiog. 524 The neighbours..were all very agreeable, even the clergyman's wife, who was a little lightsome. 1890W. A. Wallace Only a Sister? 77 She was as good-living a woman as ever stepped; but lightsome like, as foreign folks are.
3. Moving lightly; lively, nimble, quick.
1601Holland Pliny I. 37 Their sences cleare and lightsome, their wits pregnant. 1683Tryon Way to Health xi. (1697) 193 The Body will feel itself more airy and lightsomer. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1756) I. 157 Matter is drawn off, and the Head rendered brisk and lightsome. 1798Frere, etc. Anti-Jacobin No. 31 (1852) 171 Thy limber and lightsome spirit bounds up against affliction. 1805Wordsw. Prelude xiii. 133 As lightsome as a bird. 1815L. Hunt Feast of Poets 65 Mr. Scott..has a lightsome fancy. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lxv, There flutters up a happy thought, Self-balanced on a lightsome wing. 1879J. Hawthorne Laugh. M. etc. 315 His lofty figure was as alert and lightsome as it was majestic.
▪ II. lightsome, a.2|ˈlaɪtsəm|
For forms see light n. and -some.
[f. light n. + -some.]
1. Radiant with light; light-giving, luminous.
c1440Promp. Parv. 304/2 Lyghtesum, or fulle of lyghte, luminosus. 1530Rastell Bk. Purgat. iii. ii, The sonne & the other sterres..we see them so lyghtsom, so pure and clene. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. 3 Dark Lanthorn, lightsome one way, and dark another. 1813Shelley Q. Mab 102 Lightsome clouds and shining seas.
b. fig.
1382Wyclif Ps. xviii[i]. 10 The heste of the Lord [is] liȝtsum, liȝtende eȝen. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John 12 God the father, the fountain of all light; from whence what soeuer is lightsome in heauen and earth, boroweth his light. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 3 Master Camden, the most lightsome antiquarie of this age. 1615Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xi. vii, The lights of Israel..should be succeeded with one, much more lightsome than they. 1728Swift Two Lett. to Publ. Dubl. Wkly. Jrnl. i. Wks. 1824 VII. 206 You must grow from chaos and darkness, to the little glimmerings of existence first, and then proceed to more lightsome appearances afterwards. 1883R. W. Dixon Mano i. viii. 21 Those lightsome words that warm like summer days.
2. Chiefly of an apartment, a building: Permeated with light; well-lighted, bright, illumined.
1538Leland Itin. VII. 110 The Paroche Chirche is faire and lyghtesom. 1625Bacon Ess., Building (Arb.) 548 His Stately Galleries, and Roomes, so Large and Lightsome. 1654Cokaine Dianea i. 44 The Princesse was full of wonder..That this habitation being under ground was so lightsome. 1726Leoni Designs 2/2 The Ground-floor is..above the level of the Street, which..makes the offices beneath more lightsome. 1798Wordsw. Goody Blake & H. Gill v, The long, warm, lightsome summer-day. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets xii. 407 Beneath the lightsome vault of heaven he stands and prays.
b. fig.
c1425St. Mary of Oignies i. v. in Anglia VIII. 138 Þey [make] lightsum þe soule with a shynynge. 1587Golding De Mornay viii. 101 Beyond the first Olimpiade, there is nothing but a thicke cloud of ignorance, euen in the lightsomest places of all Greece. 1641M. Frank Serm. (1672) 255 The times of the Gospel are the only lightsome day. 1863W. G. Blaikie Better Days Work. People ii. 48 Will the six days of labour be none the lightsomer for the sunshine of the day of rest?
3. Clear, perspicuous, manifest. Now rare.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 355/1 So shall I..make you that matter so lightsome and so clere. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. i. Wks. 1738 II. 2, I..shall endeavour..with plain and lightsome Brevity, to relate..things worth the noting. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 269 But were not ancient schemes of human nature..far more lightsome, and easy of apprehension.
†4. Light-hued. Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1633) 312 The lightsome colours of affection, shaded with the deepest shadowes of sorrow. 1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 767 Black, and not lightsome, only about the edges of it there was some palenesse apparent. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 52 It must be a bright lightsom colour. |