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foodless, a.|ˈfuːdlɪs|
[f. food n. + -less.]
1. Without food.
a. Of persons or animals: Having no food.
a1400–50Alexander 2155 Lo, oure folez bene in fere for fodeles to dye. a1541Wyatt Poems, Ps. xxxvii. 70 Nor yet [shall] his seed foodless seen for to be. 1725Pope Odyss. xviii. 413 Both constrained to wield, Foodless, the scythe. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 170 Foodless toads Within voluptuous chambers panting crawled. 1880Earl of Dunraven in 19th Cent. Sept. 454 Our entirely foodless stomachs..indicated that it was past noon.
fig.1887Swinburne Locrine iv. i. 105 So shall fear, mistrust, and jealous hate Lie foodless.
b. Of a country, place, etc. Devoid of food; not yielding food; barren.
1636G. Sandys Paraphr. Ps cvii. (1638) 131 He in foodless Deserts fed The Hungry. 1726–46Thomson Winter 256 The foodless wilds Pour forth their brown inhabitants. 1842R. Oastler Fleet Papers II. 359 Their home..was foodless. 1861Wynter Soc. Bees 199 Vast foodless tracts have to be traversed by her ships, the camels of the ocean.
2. Without the properties of food; innutritious.
1891Independent (N.Y.) 13 Aug., Alcohol is shown to be foodless.
Hence ˈfoodlessness.
1852Meanderings of Mem. I. 10 Galls them no more their foodlessness or fag. |