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spurless, a.|ˈspɜːlɪs|
Also 4 sporeles, 5 sporles.
[f. spur n.1 + -less. Cf. G. spornlos.]
1. Lacking a spur; having no spurs. Also in fig. context.
a1300Pol. Songs (Camden) 71 Thou shalt ride sporeles o thy lyard. c1400Pilg. Sowle (Caxton, 1483) v. x. 101 There come pryke forthe sporles Humylyte and ranne ageyne pryde.
1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 266 Digging at the sides of his mule with his spurless heels. 1880in Mrs. Power O'Donoghue Ladies on Horseback (1881) 251 A spurless boot.
2. Of birds or their legs: Devoid of spurs.
1819Stephens in Shaw Gen. Zool. XI. i. 243 Argus:..the tarsi spurless: the tail ascending. 1849D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yd. (1855) 141 Bill and spurless legs less stout. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. iv. (1860) 88 A hornless stag or spurless cock.
3. Bot. Having no spur or calcar.
1839Lindley Sch. Bot. iv. 36 Petals 4;..two convex and spurless. 1849Craig, Spurless-violet, the plant Erpeton reniformis. 1855Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 196 Spurless Coral root.
4. Of branches: Destitute of fruiting-spurs.
1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 122 These long, spurless branches can be thinned out by removing them entirely. |