lamplessadj.
/ˈlampləs/, U.S. /ˈlæmpləs/ Destitute of lamps.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind
star-blindeOE
bissonc950
blind-bornc975
blindc1000
darkOE
purblinda1325
sightlessa1325
start blinda1387
stark blinda1425
stone-blindc1480
beetle-blind1556
beetle1566
eyeless?1570
purblinded1572
high-gravel-blind1600
not-seeing?1602
kind-blind1608
bat-blind1609
unseeing1609
blindful1621
winking-eyed1621
lamplessa1625
deocular1632
lightless1638
bat-eyed1656
stock-blind1675
duncha1692
gazelessa1819
visionlessa1821
blind-eyed1887
stone-eyed1890
unsighted1983
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > unilluminated or unilluminating > specific
unlanterneda1750
torchless1814
lampless1819
gasless1827
candleless1906
a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover ii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. B4/1 Your Ladies eyes are lamplesse to that vertue.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. iv. 100 The wide, grey, lampless, deep, unpeopled world!
1849 J. Sterling in Fraser's Mag. 39 411 A lampless archway.
1884 A. J. Butler Anc. Coptic Churches Egypt I. i. 36 More often in the present day they are uncoloured and lampless.
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