lithesome, a.
(ˈlaɪðsəm)
[f. lithe a. + -some.]
Pliant, supple, agile; = lissom.
| 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 177 Nature may have..made some of our organs more lithesome..than others. 1812 J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 64 Smith was lithsome and quick afoot. 1863 Kinglake Crimea II. 428 The warlike carriage of the men, and their strong, lithesome, resolute step. 1882 W. Ballantine Exper. v. (ed. 5) 248 My attention was attracted by an active lithesome old man. |