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printless, a. (adv.)|ˈprɪntlɪs|
[See -less.]
1. Making or leaving no print or trace.
1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 34 Ye, that on the sands with printlesse foote Doe chase the ebbing-Neptune, and doe flie him When he comes backe. 1634Milton Comus 897 Whilst from off the waters fleet Thus I set my printless feet O're the Cowslips Velvet head. 1855O. W. Holmes Poems 79, I heard the spirits' printless tread, And voices not of earthly sound.
2. That has received, or that retains, no print.
a1797M. Wollstonecraft Posth. Wks. (1798) IV. 160 Pacing over the printless grass. 1809Syd. Smith Serm. II. 333 We leave his infant body to the winds, and engrave upon his printless heart, in the first morning of life the feeling of pain. 1874B. Taylor Prophet ii. iv, Wandering birds..Strike their way across the printless air.
B. as adv. Without leaving, or without receiving, a print.
1792Wolcott (P. Pindar) Odes to Kien Long iii. vii, Let the widow's and the orphan's tear Fall printless on thy heart as on a stone. 1818Milman Samor 198 The moss springs printless up beneath her feet. |