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wayless, a.|ˈweɪlɪs|
Also 4 weyles, 4, 7 wayles, 6–7 wai-, waylesse, way-less, 7 waieless.
[OE. weᵹléas: see way n.1 and -less. Cf. Icel. vegalauss out of the way, lost in the woods, MHG. wegelôs, mod.G. weg(e)los.]
Having no way or road. Chiefly of a country, region, etc.: Trackless, pathless.
c1100Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 149/20 Auiaria, weᵹlæsa beara, secreta nemora. Ibid. 177/17 Inuium, unᵹefere, uel weᵹleas pæð. 1387Trevisa Higden II. 219 Man..fel.. out of hous in to maskynge and wayles contray [L. de domo ad devium]. 1398― Barth. De P.R. xiv. lii. (Tollemache MS.) A weyles wildirnesse [L. invia solitudo]. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 389 If without wings we fly..Through hundred sundry way-less wayes addrest. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. ii. 164 As though the peopled townes had way-less deserts been. 1630Drummond of Hawthornden Flowres of Sion, Hymne Fairest Faire 162 With wonders new my Spirits range possest, And wandring waylesse in a maze them rest. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 462 He was also their courteous companion in all their wayless ways. 1821R. S. Hawker Cornish Ballads, etc. (1904) 258 Joys such as these, Visions of wayless fancy, were the fire That burnt within me. 1901‘Zack’ Tales Dunstable Weir 151 The bush which from his account was wide-spreading and wayless.
Hence ˈwaylessness.
1871–4Hort The Way, etc. i. (1894) 37 The delightfulness of the opening world depends in no small measure on its semblance of waylessness. |