drinklessadj.
Without drink or liquid to quench one's thirst; dry.
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drinklessc1374
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 669 (718) He nought for-bet þat euery creature Be drynklees for alwey.
a1400 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (1892) 621/319 Druiȝe drinkeles was his tonge.
1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) x. xiii. 389/2 Moyses was with god...xl. dayes and .xl. nyghtes metelesse & drynkeles.
1646 F. Thorpe in Hull Lett. (1886) 143 I am now come back..meatless and drinkless.
1860 J. F. Campbell Pop. Tales W. Highlands (1890) II. 426 He was grown sick: Sleepless, restless, meatless, drinkless.
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adj.c1374- under mould
- under name of
- under night
- under oath
- under observation
- under offer
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- under one hat
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- under one roof
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- uncentered
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