a. [f. WEED sb.1 + -LESS.] Free from weeds. lit. and fig.

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1611.  Donne, Anat. World, 1st Anniv., 82. For all assum’d vnto this dignitee, So many weedlesse paradises bee.

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1659.  W. Chamberlayne, Pharon., III. i. 95. Whose weedless banks no pining winter knew.

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1670.  Dryden, 1st Pt. Conq. Granada, IV. (1672), 35. When troubled most, it does the bottom show, ’Tis weedless all above; and rockless all below.

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1841.  Catlin, N. Amer. Ind. (1844), II. 164. The thousand treeless, bushless, weedless hills of grass.

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1874.  W. Cory, Lett. & Jrnls. (1897), 371. A clear, weedless, rocky pool.

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1908.  H. Wales, Old Allegiance, viii. 137. Straight shaded walks and weedless lawns.

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