n. The office of an ædile. T. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of beauty. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Bile + stone. ] A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Ar. qā&dsdot_;ī judge + al'sker the army, Per. leshker. ] A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A she-devil. [ R. ] Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The office of ædile. T. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]
I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
A pert or bluff important wight,
Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. gentilesse, gentelise, F. gentillesse. See Gentle. a. ] Gentleness; courtesy; kindness; nobility. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things;
The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. [ L. Milesius, Gr. &unr_;. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n.
Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From Penny. ] Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. --
n. pl. [ L. pila a ball. Cf. Pill a medicine. ] (Med.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called
Blind piles,
a.
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a.
Hopeless are all my evils, all remediless. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Forced to forego the attempt remediless. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n.
a. Of or pertaining to Silesia. --
n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus
n.
a. [ Pref. un- (intensive) + merciless. ] Utterly merciless. [ Obs. ] Joye. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Incapable of being wearied. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. [ See While, n., and -wards. ]
The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
The whiles.
conj. During the time that; while. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him. Matt. v. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]