Definition of "longsome" [long•some]

• Tiresomely long. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "While slanderers slumber, longsome is my night, iii."
• "Kings, O my son, may not pass from one thing to another, and when they go in quest of a man, ah! longsome is his travail."
• "Quoth I, ‘Be not longsome of speech with me, for I must and will sell it;’ and quoth she, ‘Then sell it to me for fifteen thousand dinars, on condition that I take charge of thine affairs.’"