a. rare. [-LESS.] Free from, destitute of, worms.
1837. Darley, Syren Songs, v. Poet. Wks. (1908), 441. In the wormless sands shall he Feast for no foul gluttons be.
1856. Elihu Cross, in Poughkeepsie Eagle, 14 June, 1/3. I had 12 bushels of sound, wormless apples, while the fruit on other trees not experimented upon was wormy.
1902. Mabel Barnes-Grundy, A Thames Camp, vii. 111. I was in a shocking bad temper owing to the absolutely wormless condition of our plot.
