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Same as Grewsome. [Scot.]

o things as persons. [Obs.] That they [engines of war] be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. Robynson (Utopia). For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him. Spenser.

In a handsome manner.

The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.

Wholesome; salubrious. [R.] "Healthsome air." Shak.

Merry; cheerful; lively. [Scot.]

Heavy; dull. [Prov.]

Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke.

Pleasantly; humorously.

Quality of being humorsome.

All the zooids of a hydroid colony collectively, including the nutritive and reproductive zooids, and often other kinds.

An instrument for measuring heights by observation of barometric pressure; esp., one for determining heights by ascertaining the boiling point of water. It consists of a vessel for water, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.

Of or pertaining to hypsometry.

That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively.

Inclined or disposed to intermeddle. -- In`ter*med"dle*some*ness, n.

Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks. For not to irksome toil, but to delight, He made us. Milton.

A body or compound which is isomeric with another body or compound; a member of an isomeric series.

(Chem.) = Isomer.

roportion by weight, but with different molecular weights; as, acetylene and benzine are isomeric (polymeric) with each other in this sense. See Polymeric. (b) Metameric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but which a different structure or arra…

An isomer. [R.]