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a. Disheveled. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. Disheveled. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Dishevele, save his cap, he rode all bare. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. ; .
Syn. -- disheveled, ungroomed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Hanging in loose disorder; disarranged; in disarray; not made neat; -- used especially of hair or clothing; as, disheveled hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the hair in loose disorder. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dancing maidens are disheveled Mænads. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A young or small dove. Booth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [ Written also driveller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gavel tribute. ] (O. Eng. Law) An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. devoid of gloves. Oposite of gloved. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Without a grave; unburied.

n. One who grovels; an abject wretch. [ Written also groveller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having little or nothing. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of a hive. Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman. [ Written also hoveller. ] [ Prov. Eng. ] G. P. R. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Leafless. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not visited by many travelers; as, the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Written also leveller. ] 1. One who, or that which, levels. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness. Milton. Shelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not attracting love; unattractive. [ 1913 Webster ]

These are ill-favored to see to; and yet, as loveless as they be, they are not without some medicinable virtues. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive. -- Mo"tive*less*ness, n. G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]

a. Motionless; fixed. “Moveless as a tower.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Destitute of nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. [ 1913 Webster ]

A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being nerveless. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of novel, n. See Novel. ] A short novel; a novella. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also raveller. ] One who ravels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also reveller. ] One who revels. “Moonshine revelers.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also shoveller. ] 1. One who, or that which, shovels. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A river duck (Spatula clypeata), native of Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (Spatula rhynchotis), is a similar species. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. slēfleás. ] 1. Having no sleeves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lacking a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The vexation of a sleeveless errand. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also sniveller. ] One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [ Written also travelled. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also traveler. ] 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers. --
Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Written also untravelled. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having never visited foreign countries; not having gained knowledge or experience by travel; as, an untraveled Englishman. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having varvels, or rings. [ Written also varvelled, and vervelled. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In heraldry, when the jesses attached to the legs of hawks hang loose, or have pendent ends with rings at the tips, the blazon is a hawk (or a hawk's leg) jessed and varveled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A veil. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., dim. from L. velum a veil, a sail. ] (Zool.) Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus Velella. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These creatures are brilliantly colored and float at the surface of the sea. They have an oblong, disklike body, supported by a thin chitinous plate, from which rises a thin diagonal crest which acts as a sail. The feeding and reproductive zooids hang down from the under side of the disk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little wave; a ripple. [ 1913 Webster ]