a. [-LESS.] That is without a wart or warts; free from warts.
1846. Worcester.
1861. Cincinnati Daily Press, 20 May, 2/5. ‘Paint me,’ said Cromwell to Lely, ‘warts and all.’ Macaulay’s whigs are wartless—his tories are all warts.
1898. Blakeborough, Wit, Char. etc. N. Riding, 139. In a fortnight’s time he was wartless.
1904. Daily News, 10 June, 4. It [Carlyle’s Cromwell] transformed an ogre into a saint, almost a wartless saint.
