Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Winsome

Winsome , adjective

[Anglo-Saxon wynsum, from wynn joy; akin to Old Saxon wunnia, Old High German wunna, wunni, German wonne, Gothic wunan to rejoice (in unwunands sad), Anglo-Saxon wunian to dwell. {not transcribed}. See Win, transitive verb, Wont, a.]

1.
Cheerful; merry; gay; light-hearted.
Misled by ill example, and a winsome nature. — Jeffrey
2.
Causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant.
Still plotting how their hungry ear That winsome voice again might hear. — Emerson