a. [f. CORE sb.1 + -LESS.] Without a core; hollow; heartless.
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, IV. 233. Empty and vain as his own coreless heart.
1827. Sir H. Taylor, Isaac Comnenus, II. i. I … am very old; Coreless and sapless.
1881. W. Wilkins, Songs of Study, 165. And God makes these coreless fair women … To mock us—it may be—a little.
