a. [see -LESS.] Void of booty.
1849. Buffalo Daily Courier, 28 Sept., 2/4. His cries, however, alarmed the scoundrels who fled, bootyless.
1866. Standard, 27 Feb., 5/4. The innumerable dudheens and countless hot whiskies with which the disappointed O’Mahoneyites consoled themselves after this bootyless expedition.
