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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A dialectal (Scotch) form of woesome.

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Examples

  • These include 'waesome', meaning sorrowful, woeful; and 'brash', meaning attack.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

  • Verra well, dinna ye think as hoo yon Irish whelp I skelpit the day 'll hae a waesome feelin' i 'his breist?

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • My hotel had some interesting inmates, for a poor young creature, borne in from one of the burning houses, became a mother during the night; and a stout little lassie opened its eyes upon this waesome world during the excitement and danger of a Gorgona conflagration.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

  • It's waesome tae see him lyin 'there moanin' like some dumb animal frae mornin 'tae nicht, an' no able tae answer his ain wife when she speaks.

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

  • "It wes waesome tae see the auld man githerin 'his bit things wi' a shakin 'hand, and speakin' tae me aboot the weather, and a 'the time his eyes were sayin', 'Flora, Flora.'"

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

  • It's waesome tae see him lyin 'there moanin' like some dumb animal frae mornin 'tae nicht, an' no able tae answer his ain wife when she speaks.

    A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878

  • It's waesome tae see him lyin 'there moanin' like some dumb animal frae mornin 'tae nicht, an' no able tae answer his ain wife when she speaks.

    A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 3 Ian Maclaren 1878

  • My hotel had some interesting inmates, for a poor young creature, borne in from one of the burning houses, became a mother during the night; and a stout little lassie opened its eyes upon this waesome world during the excitement and danger of a Gorgona conflagration.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands 1857

  • CHAPTER I. "Puir wee lassie, ye hae a waesome welcome to a waesome warld!"

    Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

  • Poor little spirit! newly come to earth, who knows whether that "waesome welcome" may not be a prophecy?

    Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

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