heartsome
Americanadjective
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giving cheer, spirit, or courage.
a heartsome wine.
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cheerful; spirited.
heartsome lads and lasses.
adjective
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cheering or encouraging
heartsome news
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gay; cheerful
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"They do say 'at you're not the same heartsome little lass," he said.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
I know no evenings so tender as those that gather about the Island: at once heartsome and subdued.
From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas
This, at least, was not a fancy born of overtaxed nerves, for while given to heartsome merriment, daring, and occasionally imperious, there was a large share of the spiritual in the character of the girl.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold
I mind the day"—so he began—"a fine heartsome harvest day in mid-September.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
And now, with "heartsome voice of mellow scorn," let us sound the message of the "bold straightforward horn."
From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell
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