a. Sc. Obs. rare. Also buksome, -sum, bulksome. [App. f. BOUK + -SOME; but influenced in sense and partly in form by BULK; see BUXOM a.2] Corpulent, portly; occupying large space, bulky; fig. great, powerful, influential.
1600. Act. Jas. VI., (1814), 209 (Jam.). Andro had ane vther dowblet … and wes mair buksum.
1708. M. Bruce, Lect. & Serm., 33 (Jam.). Where Christ grows ay bulksomer in the bosom. Ibid. Christ is buksome in heaven.
1785. Poems Buchan Dial., 12 (Jam.). Laggert wi’ this bouksome graith You will tyne haaf your speed.
