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The state, quality, or relation, of two or more isomeric substances. Physical isomerism (Chem.), the condition or relation of certain (metameric) substances, which, while chemically identical (in that they have the same composition, the same molecular weights, and the same ultimate constitution), are yet physically dif…

ISOMEROMORPHISM n.

Isomorphism between substances that are isomeric.

ISOMETRIC; ISOMETRICAL a. 2 definitions

ngth and at right angles to each other; monometric; regular; cubic. Cf. Crystallization. Isometric lines (Thermodynamics), lines representing in a diagram the relations of pressure and temperature in a gas, when the volume remains constant. -- Isometrical perspective. See under Perspective. -- Isometrical projection,…

Causing joyfulness. [R.] This all joysome grove. T. Browne.

Christian; christened. [Obs.] I am a true kirsome woman. Beau. & Fl.

LABORSOME a. 2 definitions

Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence. [Obs.] Shak.

Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry. [R.]

Pleasing; delightful. [Obs.]

Animated; sprightly. [Poetic] Coleridge. -- Life"some*ness, n.

LIGHTSOME a. 2 definitions

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright. White walls make rooms more lightsome than black. Bacon.

LISSOM; LISSOME a. 2 definitions

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. Tennyson.

Pliant; limber; flexible; supple; nimble; lissom. -- Lithe"some*ness, n.

Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.

LONESOME a. 2 definitions

Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary. Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread. Coleridge .

Extended in length; tiresome. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. [Obs.] Fuller.

LOTH; LOTHLY; LOTHSOME a.

See Loath, Loathly, etc.

o meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.

One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.

The fold of the peritoneum supporting the oviduct.