a. [f. COMPASS sb.1 + -LESS.] Without a compass.
a. 1864. Knowles, cited by Webster.
1868. Adah I. Menken, Infelicia, 36. Compassless, rudderless, the poor ship pleads.
1884. Traill, New Lucian, 31. And what was this France that we betrayed? A mastless, compassless vessel, hull down in a weltering sea of anarchy and rolling and plunging towards the reef of Revolution.
