a. [f. CHIEF sb. + -LESS.] Having no chief.

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c. 1730.  Burt, Lett. N. Scotl. (1760), II. xxiii. 221. The Chiefless Highlander was going to the place.

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1742.  Pope, Dunc., IV. 617. And chiefless armies doz’d out the campaign.

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1882.  Athenæum, 22 April, 501/2. From the lowly estate of chiefless Eskimo and almost chiefless Australians.

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