a. [f. VOWEL sb. + -LESS.] Having no vowel or vowels.
1866. Pall Mall G., 7 Dec., 4/1. It renders the original—in nearly vowelless Semitic fashion—correctly enough.
1870. J. F. Smith, Ewald’s Introd. Hebr. Gram., 163. A vanishing o usually reappears in connexion with the first of the two vowelless consonants which might arise.
1892. Bruce, Apologetics, II. ix. 304. The Masoretic Hebrew text is thus only an approximately accurate translation by Jewish scholars of the vowelless original.
