Chapless

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having no lower jaw; fleshless. not-comparable, obsolete

    "Why, e'en so. And now my Lady Worm’s, chapless and knocked about the mazard with a sexton’s spade. Here’s fine revolution, an we had the trick to see ’t. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with them? Mine ache to think on ’t."

Example

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"Why, e'en so. And now my Lady Worm’s, chapless and knocked about the mazard with a sexton’s spade. Here’s fine revolution, an we had the trick to see ’t. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with them? Mine ache to think on ’t."

Etymology

From chap + -less.

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