Chapless
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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
More examples"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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