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lissom, a.|ˈlɪsəm|
Also lissome.
[Contracted variant of lithesome.]
a. Supple, limber; lithesome; lithe and agile.
a1800Pegge Suppl. to Grose (1814) 34 Lissom, limber, relaxed, North. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 147 They are..so much more athletic, and yet so much lissomer—to use a Hampshire phrase, which deserves at least to be good English. 1825Britton Beauties Wiltsh. III. 375 Lithesome, or Lissome, soft, pliable; expert in action. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 135 Back flew the bolt of lissom lath. 1855Tennyson Brook 70 Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S. Co. 11 The lissom bound of the hare. 1890‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Miner's Right (1899) 187/1 The tongues grow lissom under the influence of good fellowship and potent liquor.
fig.1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. I. viii. 227 His [Ovid's] lissome lines are droned over.
b. That renders supple. nonce-use.
1864Ld. Derby Iliad xviii. 389 They wash'd the corpse, With lissom oils anointing.
Hence ˈlissomely adv.; ˈlissomness.
1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. iii. (1871) 264 He..was applauded by all for his lissomness. 1895Saintsbury Corrected Impressions xv. 142 His..marvellous lissomeness..of thought. 1902W. de la Mare Songs of Childhood 54 Though danced she lissomely. 1927M. Sadleir Trollope: a Comm. 322 Trollope worried to find it limping on its way, when usually his stories moved so lissomely. |