a. [f. COVER sb. + -LESS.] Without a cover. Hence Coverlessness.
1863. W. B. Jerrold, Signals of Distress, 4. The gin-palace on one side of the way, and the empty cupboard and coverless bed opposite.
1881. Mrs. Holman Hunt, Childr. Jerus., 58. The dinner was forced to find its way coverless through the storm.
1886. Sat. Rev., 28 Aug., 304/2. The little quartos are so well printed … that one is bound to excuse … their coverlessness.
