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One of the component segments of the body of an animal.

Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse. -- Met"tle*some*ly, adv. -- Met"tle*some*ness, n.

Dark; gloomy; murky. [Archaic] Spenser. -- Mirk"some*ness, n. [Archaic]

Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." Ps. xci. 3.

An instrument with a revolving wheel for measuring a curved line, as on a map.

Too burdensome.

The entire covering of an invertebrate animal, as echinoderm or coelenterate; the integument.

Pithy; robust. [R.] "Pithsome health and vigor." R. D. Blackmore.

Playful; wanton; sportive. [R.] R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n. [R.]

Poisonous.[Obs.] Holland.

Same as Prothyalosoma.

A device, with valves, for raising water by steam, partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; -- also called vacuum pump.

Any compound ascidian of the genus Pyrosoma. The pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent.

Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

Calm; still. [Obs.] Spenser.

One who ransoms or redeems.

Roomy. [Obs.] Evelyn.

The body wall of any radiate animal.

A sensitive kind of barometer, in which the pressure of the atmosphere, acting upon a liquid, as oil, in the lower portion of the instrument, compresses an elastic gas in the upper part.

Of or pertaining to both the tarsus and metatarsus; as, the tarsometatarsal articulations.