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lidless, a.|ˈlɪdlɪs| [f. lid n. + -less.] Without a lid.
1522Bury Wills (Camden) 116 A potell pewter pott ledles. 1867G. Macdonald Poems 119 Lidless coffins. 1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 138 Tea which had been boiled over the smoky logs in the lidless billies. b. Of the eyes: Having no lids; not covered with the lids. Chiefly poet. = ‘ever-watchful’.
1796Coleridge Ode Departing Yr. 145 Her lidless dragon-eyes. 1820Shelley Ode Liberty iv, Philosophy did strain Her lidless eyes for thee. 1847Tennyson Princess iv. 306 Not less to an eye like mine A lidless watcher of the public weal. c. Comb., as lidless-eyed lidless-looking adjs.
1818Keats Endym. i. 598 The lidless-eyed train Of planets. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 153 Lidless-looking eyes. |