a. Also Sc. waesome. [f. WOE sb. + -SOME.] Woeful.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xliv. She kend her lot would be a waesome ane.
1867. G. Macdonald, Songs Summer Nts., I. iii. ’Tis not a flowing wind, I see—An ebbing woesome thing.
1897. E. W. Wilcox, in Outing XXIX. 356/1. The copper blade passed through Lakanoo’s breast-bone, cutting a woesome gash, but stopped not.
