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The quality of being awesome.

Same as Awesome.

The thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

One who uses a besom. [Archaic]

Cheery; gay; merry. The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott. -- Blithe"some*ly, adv. -- Blithe"some*ness, n.

Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.

Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.

Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. [R.] Marlowe.

causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton.

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. Packard.

One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

Burdensome or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. To perform a cumbersome obedience. Sir. P. Sidney.

Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless. [Poetic] He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold. Spenser.

Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew. Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12. -- De*light"some*ly, adv. -- De*light"some*ness, n.

Full of din. [Scot.] Burns.

Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful. -- Dole"some*ly, adv. -- Dole"some*ness, n.

Very dreary. Halliwell.

An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.

Dull. [R.] Gataker.