a. Without a back. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of bark. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without books; unlearned. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. That can not be checked or restrained. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. having no cheek. Opposite of
a. Without a clank. Byreon. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Unlearned. [ Obs. ] E. Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of drink. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Perh. a corruption of effectless. ] Spiritless; weak; worthless. [ Scot ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without spot or blame. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
My consnience will not count me fleckless. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no fork. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of a frock. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Hot + cockle, cockle being perh. corrupt. fr. knuckle. Cf. F. main chaude (lit., hot hand) hotcockles. ] A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. a small metal weapon, worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand; called also
a. Destitute of a lock. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune;
Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour. Dryden.
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adj. lacking or apparently lacking a neck; -- of a garment;
n. pl. An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs.
a. Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ AS. recceleás, rēceleás. ]
It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Being without rocks. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ AS. sacleás; sacu contention + leás loose, free from. ] Quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Free from sickness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Lacking a smock. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of socks or shoes. B. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no stalk. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Strickle. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
That she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
To shepherd thankless, but by thieves that love the night allowed. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden;
To climb the trackless mountain all unseen. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Unrevengeful; weak. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]