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trackless, a.|ˈtræklɪs|
[f. track n. + -less.]
Without a track or path; pathless; not marked by a track; untrodden.
1656Cowley Pind. Odes, Muse ii, Where Bird..did ne're Row through the trackless Ocean of the Air. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 53. 3/2 A trackless Labyrinth of woe. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. Introd. §44 The recesses of a trackless wilderness. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. II. v. 66 The soldiers were easily..bewildered in the trackless mountains.
b. Leaving no track or trace.
1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. v. 638 Then thro' the Heavn's their trackless Flight they take. 1864[implied in tracklessly]. 1890‘Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 426 His yacht..could sweep out unchallenged and trackless as the falcon. 1907C. C. Brown China in Leg. & Story ii. 33 Its gray slabs worn by trackless feet, as the centuries went on.
c. Not running on a track or line of rails, while propelled by electric power from overhead conductors.
1909Westm. Gaz. 22 Sept. 8/1 Leeds is now assured of a system of trackless trams. Ibid., A splendid system of tramways, both trackless and otherwise.
Hence ˈtracklessly adv., ˈtracklessness.
1847Webster, Tracklessly, Tracklessness. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 269 The cloud-shadows melted tracklessly toward the hills. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy i. 83 Shall then pass away Like wind upon the waters, tracklessly. |