*les*

a. [ Pref. a- not + caulescent. ] (Bot.) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without accent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the seige of Troy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. Achillis tendo. ] (Anat.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria.
Syn. -- order Actinomycetales [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Void of action. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without action or spirit. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fr., fr. L. adolescentia. ] The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult. ] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,
Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of an ædile. T. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from affliction. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Helpless; without aid. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life. -- Aim"less*ly, adv. -- Aim"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without an aisle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a “bush.” [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A tendency to become alkaline; or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. alcalescent. ] Tending to the properties of an alkali; slightly alkaline. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Devoid of ambition. Pollok. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an order of mosses which comprises a single genus: Andreaea.
Syn. -- order Andreaeales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ L. Angli. See Anglican. ] (Ethnol.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the Isle of Anglesea. ] (Min.) A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. A member of the Bantu tribes resident in Angola. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'anwfelh`s useless, hurtful. ] (Zool.) A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of an apostle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Apotelesmatic. ] 1. The result or issue. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) The calculation and explanation of a nativity. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; effect of the stars on human destiny, fr. &unr_; to complete; &unr_; from + &unr_; to end, &unr_; end. ] 1. Relating to the casting of horoscopes. [ Archaic ] Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to an issue of fulfillment. [ 1913 Webster ]

In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced.
Syn. -- apple sauce [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. nonsensical talk or writing.
Syn. -- folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Impossible to be approached. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without an apron. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. arbaleste, LL. arbalista, for L. arcuballista; arcus bow + ballista a military engine. See Ballista. ] (Antiq.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [ Written also arbalet and arblast. ] Fosbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. arblastere, OF. arbalestier. See Arbalest. ] A crossbowman. [ Obs. ] Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an order of plants distinguished by tubular petaloid perianth and inferior ovary. It includes the Aristolochiaceae, Rafflesiaceae, and Hydnoraceae.
Syn. -- order Aristolochiales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ Cf. F. arrhes, Scot. airles. Cf. Earles penny. ] An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Arles penny, earnest money given to servants. Kersey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Without any arm or branch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Destitute of arms or weapons. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Artless of stars and of the moving sand. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Contrived without skill or art; inartistic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Artless and massy pillars. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, how unlike the complex works of man,
Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered plan! Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Simple; unaffected; sincere; undesigning; guileless; unsophisticated; open; frank; candid. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without aid or help. [ R. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; incomplete; 'a priv. + &unr_; completion. ] (Zool.) A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without an author; without authority; anonymous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unavoidable; inevitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Awless. [ 1913 Webster ]