a. poet. [f. AID sb. + -LESS.]

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  † 1.  Affording no help, of no service, unserviceable, useless. Obs.

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1674.  R. Godfrey, Inj. & Abus. Physic, 88. When the Apothecaries Drugs have proved aidless.

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  2.  Bereft or void of help, unassisted, helpless.

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1607.  Shaks., Coriol., II. ii. 116. Alone he entred The mortall Gate of th’Citie … aydelesse came off.

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1637.  Milton, Comus, 574. The aidless innocent Lady, his wished prey.

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1832.  Tennyson, Morte d’Arthur, 41. It is not meet, Sir King, to leave thee thus, Aidless, alone.

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