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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Buxom \Bux"om\, a. [OE. buxum, boxom, buhsum, pliable, obedient,
     AS. b[=o]csum, b[=u]hsum (akin to D. buigzaam blexible, G.
     biegsam); b[=u]gan to bow, bend + -sum, E. -some. See {Bow}
     to bend, and {-some}.]
     1. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient;
        tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.]


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              So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be,
              And buxom to his bands, is joy to see. --Spenser.
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              I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to
              be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it.
                                                    --Foxe.
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     2. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and
        comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and
        rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
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              A daughter fair,
              So buxom, blithe, and debonair.       --Milton.
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              A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing,
              singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long.
                                                    --Tatler.
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     3. having a pronounced womanly shape. [chiefly dialect]
  
     Syn: bosomy, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy,
          voluptuous.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] -- {Bux"om*ly}, adv. --
          {Bux"om*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  buxomly
       adv : in a curvaceous way; "his date was curvaceously beguiling"
             [syn: {curvaceously}]

















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