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ˈdrinkless, a.
[f. drink n. + -less.]
Without drink or liquid to quench one's thirst; dry.
13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (E.E.T.S.) 621/319 Druiȝe drinkeles was his tonge. c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 669 (718) He nought for-bet þat euery creature Be drynklees for alwey. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) x. xiii. 389/2 Moyses was with god...xl. dayes and .xl. nyghtes metelesse & drynkeles. 1646F. Thorpe in Hull Lett. (1886) 143, I am now come back..meatless and drinkless. 1860J. F. Campbell Tales West Highlands (1890) II. 426 He was grown sick: Sleepless, restless, meatless, drinkless. |