a. [See -LESS.] Without a crest; not bearing a crest.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., II. iv. 85. Spring Crestlesse Yeomen from so deepe a Root?
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xiii. Like the crestless churls of England.
1891. Standard, 14 May, 5/2. The London Municipality is at this moment armless, and crestless, and mottoless.
