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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bux·om a.
 1. Yielding; pliable or compliant; ready to obey; obedient; tractable; docile; meek; humble. [Obs.]
 So wild a beast, so tame ytaught to be,
 And buxom to his bands, is joy to see.   --Spenser.
    I submit myself unto this holy church of Christ, to be ever buxom and obedient to the ordinance of it.   --Foxe.
 2. Having the characteristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome.
 A daughter fair,
 So buxom, blithe, and debonair.   --Milton.
    A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long.   --Tatler.
 --  Bux*om*ly, adv. -- Bux*om*ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 buxomness
      n : the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous
          and (of women) full bosomed