a. Without accent. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Void of action. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without action or spirit. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Free from affliction. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without old age limits of duration;
a. Helpless; without aid. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without aim or purpose;
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 ]
a. Devoid of ambition. Pollok. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Impossible to be approached. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without an apron. [ 1913 Webster ]
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Artless of stars and of the moving sand. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Artless and massy pillars. T. Warton. [ 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 ]
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 ]
a. Without an author; without authority; anonymous. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Unavoidable; inevitable. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. See Awless. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
n. The quality of being awless. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without awns or beard. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without a back. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no badge. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of bark. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without a base; having no foundation or support. “The baseless fabric of this vision.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Shameless; unblushing. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not to be abated. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no beacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The state or quality of being destitute of beard. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of beauty. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. lacking a belt.
a. Having no benefice. “Beneficeless precisians.” Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. lacking a bib.
a. Of mean extraction. [ R. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not having a bit or bridle. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of. [ 1913 Webster ]
A bishop then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]
Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. [ 1913 Webster ]
We will be blameless of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a blameless manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being blameless; innocence. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Without blemish; spotless. [ 1913 Webster ]
A life in all so blemishless. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. Gen. ii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]
The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. 1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. ) [ 1913 Webster ]
Bless them which persecute you. Rom. xii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]
Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. Luke ix. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Ps. ciii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]
The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jer. iv. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]
And burning blades about their heads do bless. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This is an old sense of the word, supposed by Johnson, Nares, and others, to have been derived from the old rite of blessing a field by directing the hands to all parts of it. “In drawing [ their bow ] some fetch such a compass as though they would turn about and bless all the field.” Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bless me!
Bless us!
To bless from,
To bless with,
To be blessed with
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O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode,
And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
All generations shall call me blessed. Luke i. 48. [ 1913 Webster ]
Towards England's blessed shore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Reverenced like a blessed saint. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Cast out from God and blessed vision. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Not a blessed man came to set her [ a boat ] free. R. D. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Happily; fortunately; joyfully. [ 1913 Webster ]
We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. [ 1913 Webster ]
The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Single blessedness,
See under Thistle. [ 1913 Webster ]