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hueless, a.|ˈhjuːlɪs|
[f. hue n.1 + -less.]
†1. (In OE. and ME.) Formless, shapeless.
a1100Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 318/24 Deformis, hiwleas. a1200Ibid. 538/1 Deformis, heowleas.
2. Colourless, pallid.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 242 Hu hiwlease hie beoð. c1380Sir Ferumb. 923 Olyuer..Þat hewles was of semblant; for he bar many a wounde. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 65 The Empire resembled a bloodlesse, yea a huelesse bodie. 1817Coleridge Sibyll. Leaves Poems 1828 II. 325 Thin and hueless as a ghost. c1865E. Dickinson Poems (1955) II. 737, I sight the Aprils—Hueless to me until thou come. 1932Chesterton Chaucer viii. 264 The sort of harsh and hueless light that can be seen in the black engravings in the old Family Bibles.
Hence ˈhuelessness, absence of colour.
1861W. Barnes in Macm. Mag. June 130/2 Huelessness, which is called black. |