a. Obs. or arch. rare. [f. LOAD sb. + -SOME.] Burdensome.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 2. That therby the reading … may be more conspicuous … which otherwise would be loadsom, and tedious.
1583. Greene, Mamillia, 36. The weakest wit & youngest yeeres … is euer forced to bear the lodesom burden of loue.
1850. Fraser’s Mag., XLII. 139. It has all the charms of idlesse, without the weary, loadsome, and loathsome self-reproachingness of idleness.
