silverlessadj.
Without money; having no money.
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the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > lacking money
to the boneOE
silverlessc1325
pennilessc1330
moneylessc1400
impecunious1596
crossless1600
penceless1605
unmoneyed1606
coinless1614
emptya1643
out of pocket1679
money-bound1710
broke1716
embarrassed1744
stiver cramped1785
plackless1786
taper1789
poundlessa1794
shillingless1797
unpennied1804
fundless1809
impecuniary1814
hard up1821
soldier-thighed1825
cashless1833
stiverless1839
fly-blown1853
strapped1857
stick1859
tight1859
stone-broke1886
stony1886
oofless1888
stony-broke1890
motherless1906
penny-pinched1918
skinned1924
skint1925
on the beach1935
potless1936
boracic1959
uptight1967
brassic1982
c1325 Pol. Songs (Camden) 324 Voiz of clerk is sielde i-herd at the Court of Rome,..silverles if he come.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. x. 119 He sente hem forth seluerles in a somer garnement.
1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. (1750) 14 A sillerless man gangs fast thro' the market.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 28 Ye maunna gang this wilfu' gate sillerless, come o't what like.
a1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1842) 96 Folk sillerless may ca' us,—We ha'e unco little gear.
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