a. [f. BRIDGE sb. + -LESS.] Having no bridge, unspanned by a bridge; also fig.

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1801.  Southey, Thalaba, V. x. A free and bridgeless tide, Euphrates rolls along.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IX. XX. viii. 157. A chasm or bridgeless interstice between two ramparts.

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1884.  H. Drummond, Nat. Law in Spir. W. (ed. 8), 72. The bridgeless gulf between the natural and the spiritual.

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  b.  Of the nose.

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1863.  Geo. Eliot, Romola, in Cornh. Mag., VII. 286. His bridgeless nose and low forehead.

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