Definition of "lightsome" []

• Providing light; luminous. (adjective)
• Covered with or full of light; bright. (adjective)
• Light, nimble, or graceful in movement. (adjective)
• Free from worry or care; cheerful. (adjective)
• Frivolous; silly. (adjective)

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• "What idea is more beguiling than the notion of lightsome spirits, free of time and space and human weakness, hovering between us and all harm?"
• "We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work, upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work, upon a lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye."
• "But what is lightsome and blithe in her, was debonaire in him."