a. Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort.
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My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night. Spenser.
n. a highway interchange between two roads in which the connecting road pattern resembles a four-leaf clover, and which allows moving from one road to another without left-hand turns. One road passes over the other, and the exit from one highway and entrance into the second highway proceeds from the right-hand lane in all directions. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]
n. [ F. couvre-lit; couvrir to cover + lit bed, fr. L. lectus bed. See Cover. ] The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. [ 1913 Webster ]
Lay her in lilies and in violets . . .
And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Free from danger. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Deer + - let. ] (Zool.) A chevrotain. See Kanchil, and Napu. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no dinner;
a. Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
n. The state of being without a father. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Free from fetters. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]
Flowerless plants,
n. State of being without flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no gender. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
v. t.
a. Not laughing; without laughter. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. lacking a leader;
n.
a.
n. (Bot.) Same as Liverwort. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of a master or owner; ungoverned or ungovernable. --
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a. [ AS. mōdorleás. ] Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother;
a. Innumerable; countless. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Being without order or regularity; disorderly; out of rule. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ AS. oferhleápan. See Over, and Leap. ] To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore. “Let me o'erleap that custom.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To learn (a fact or skill) repetitively, beyond the point where it can be immediately recalled; in experimental psychology, to continue to learn beyond the point where the criterion of adequate learning has been reached. [ PJC ]
a. Too learned. --
a. Learned by repetitive practice or memorization, beyond the point where it can be immediately recalled. [ PJC ]
n. Upper leather. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without an owner. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative. “Her peerless feature.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Unvailed her peerless light. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. --
a. Not using prayer; habitually neglecting prayer to God; without prayer. “The next time you go prayerless to bed.” Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. [ Pref. preter- + legal. ] Exceeding the limits of law. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no rider;
a. Without a rudder. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of shelter or protection. [ 1913 Webster ]
Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Rainless; freo from showers. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no silcver; hence, without money; impecunious. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without slumber; sleepless. [ 1913 Webster ]