1825 S. T. Coleridge Let. 6 Sept. (1971) V. 490 The Nom. or rather the caseless word.

1901 Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 13 23 It [sc. the noun] is really a caseless form, a proposition of an idea, that is..without any of the various further conceptions which Grammar has grouped in the category of case.

1937 Amer. Anthropologist 39 269 The caseless noun is perhaps especially likely to be derived from the objective form.

2002 K. É. Kiss Syntax of Hungarian vii. 180 The possessor can be realized as a dative-marked complement or as a caseless determiner.

1884 ‘Judge Wiglittle’ 10 Years Police Judge xii. 70 A caseless day. What better condition of a court than to be without business?

1916 Law Notes Mar. 224/2 We have often heard of the briefless lawyer and have sympathized with him in his enforced idleness, but a caseless court is indeed a novelty.

1986 M. Cotsell Compan. to Our Mutual Friend 37 The briefless (or caseless) barrister was an established type.

1990 W. Luis tr. F. Calcagno in Lit. Bondage iii. 126 He put an end to the caseless lawyer, incurable cancer of our social body.

1835 Richmond (Indiana) Palladium 15 Aug. 1/6 The great white-faced, caseless clock..was the wonder of..the neighbors.

1892 J. Miller Workingman's Paradise ii. vi. 184 ‘This gentleman's going to stay,’ replied Jack, putting the sheet over the caseless pillow.

1923 Amer. Mag. Apr. 53/1 Others make a practice of carrying their caseless glasses in a pocket, and break them when leaning against a table.

1984 J. Norman Organs Brit. 246 The instrument is essentially a caseless organ..with exposed basses, relying on the massing of the pipes and the different colours and textures of metal and wood to give form.

2004 T. Botha Mongo (2005) 39 The black-bag merchandise is sometimes neatly arranged on a sheet of cardboard—tired blue jeans, caseless porn videos, creased shoes.

1901 Arms & Explosives May 79/1 Repeating pistol for caseless ammunition.

1967 Arizona Republic 5 Nov. 9 e/1 Company officials called the caseless cartridge probably the most basic firearms advance since the invention of shells outmoded muzzle loading.

1983 C. Thomas Firefox Down viii. 181 A couple of the very latest 4.7 mm Heckler & Koch caseless rifles.

1994 J. P. Holms & T. Burke Terrorism 189 The ammunition is caseless, the bullets being embedded in a solid block of propellant that slides into the weapon above the barrel.

2005 Pop. Mech. May 82/2 The soldier's weapon will hold 200 rounds of lightweight caseless ammunition embedded in a monolithic block of high-ignition-temperature propellant.