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ˈmakeless, a. Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: see make n.1
[f. make n.1 + -less.]
1. Without an equal; matchless, peerless.
a1225St. Marher. 17 Þis is ure cunde, makelese meiden. a1300Cursor M. 12119 And þof þou wen make-less to be, Þat nan in lare sal teche þe. c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 116 (172) In bewte erst so stood she makeles. c1450Holland Howlat 902 He thocht him maid on the mold makless of mycht. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. lxxiii. 540 It is quene Isoud that oute taken my lady your quene she is makeles. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxv. 52 Wylcum! my golk of maire⁓land, My chirrie and my maikles munȝoun. 1563Mirr. Mag., Buckingh. xiii, A makeles prynce in ryches and in myght. c1615Mure Misc. Poems ii. 33 Mackles dame, quhom all ye world admires. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words, Make, match; makeless, matchless. 1829Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Makeless, matchless, without an equal.
2. Mateless; wifeless, husbandless, widowed.
c1425Seven Sag. (P.) 3307 The ȝonge that helpe hyr for to lyve, He schal have that he ches, And the holde go makeless. 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 32 To mak her maikles of hir man. c1600Shakes. Sonn. ix, The world will waile thee like a makelesse wife. 1825–80Jamieson, s.v. Maikless, The mother's a makeless bird. |