a. [see -LESS.]
1. Ignorant of books, unscholarly. poet.
1735. Somerville, Chase, I. 395. How mean, how low, The bookless saunt’ring Youth.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Wks. (1764), I. 293. Why, with the cit, Or bookless churl … deign’st thou to reside?
1847. Tennyson, Princess, II. 42.
| Your flight from out your bookless wilds would seem | |
| As arguing love of knowledge and of power. |
2. Destitute of books.
1788. Cowper, Lett. (1824), II. 123. Inform a bookless student in what region … his long-lost volumes may be found.
1865. Pall Mall Gaz., 7 Oct., 11. The dusty tourist, lounging in the deserted streets of bookless Caceres, or Alcantara.
