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dowless, a. Sc.|ˈdaʊlɪs| [f. dow v.1 + -less: cf. Ger. taugenichts.] Without strength or energy; feeble; infirm.
1788Picken Poems 50 (Jam.) Winter's dowless days. Ibid. 55 (Jam.) Dowless fowk, for health gane down. a1810Tannahill Poet. Wks. (1846) 48 Dowless eild, in poortith cauld, Is lanely left to stand the stoure. |