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Noisome
Open directlyHastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
NOI'SOME (Old French noiser,"to hurt") is used in the A.V. in the sense of "baneful." Ps 91:3; Eze 14:21.
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Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
NOI'SOME (Old French noiser,"to hurt") is used in the A.V. in the sense of "baneful." Ps 91:3; Eze 14:21.
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia. "Noisome pestilence." Ps. xci. 3.
2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid. "Foul breath is noisome." Shak. -- Noi"some*ly, adv. -- Noi"some*ness, n.
Synonyms: Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous; destructive. Noisome, Noxious. These words have to a great extent been interchanged; but there is a tendency to make a distinction between them, applying noxious to things that inflict evil directly; as, a noxious plant, noxious practices, etc., and noisome to things that operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome vapors, a noisome pestilence, etc. Noisome has the additional sense of disqusting. A garden may be free from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome smell.