blissom

From Middle English blissomen, of North Germanic origin, related to Old Norse blæsma (“to be in heat”). Compare also Icelandic blasma (“in heat”), Middle Dutch blesme.

blissom (third-person singular simple present blissoms, present participle blissoming, simple past and past participle blissomed)

1. (archaic, stative, said of a ewe) To be lustful; to be lascivious.

• lust; see also Thesaurus:harlotize

blissom (comparative more blissom, superlative most blissom)

1. in heat; said of ewes

• blissome

• “blissom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.