Wineless

a. [f. WINE sb.¹ + -LESS.]

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1. Lacking or destitute of wine.

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1436. Libel Engl. Pol., in Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 183. What nedeth a garlande, whyche is made of ivye, Shew a tavern wynelesse, also thryve I.

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1891. Daily News, 2 Feb., 5/6. Invitations to wineless dinners.

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1910. J. H. Moulton & G. Milligan, in Expositor, March, 284. Altars at which only wineless offerings were made.

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† 2. Lacking the characteristic qualities of wine. Obs. nonce-use.

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1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 684. A winelesse weake wine as one may say [ἀοίνῳ οἴνῳ].

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