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▪ I. marrowless, a.1|ˈmærəʊlɪs|
[f. marrow n.1 + -less.]
Having no marrow. lit. and fig.
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. iv. 94 Thy bones are marrowlesse, thy blood is cold. 1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. i. i, O, that marrow-lesse age Should stuffe the hollow Bones with dambd desires. 1707tr. Wks. C'tess D'Anois (1715) 451 Break off this ungodly Match between this Marrowless Curmudgeon and your young Daughter. a1823G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (1826) 58 They..lent each other ruthless paiks Athort the bare and merghless spaiks. 1877Rosenthal Muscles & Nerves 104 These marrowless fibres are grey.
▪ II. ˈmarrowless, a.2 dial.
[f. marrow n.2 + -less.]
Without a ‘marrow’; companionless; unmarried; unequalled, unmatched; not matching, wanting the other member of the pair, ‘odd’.
1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 433 My matchless, and my most marrowless and marvellous Wellbeloved. 1660Dickson Sel. Writ. (1845) I. 58 Know thou art not marrowless in thy exercise. 1844Cross Disruption xxiii. (E.D.D.), A marrowless glove. |