a. [f. CUB sb.1 + -LESS.] Without or bereft of cubs.
1821. Byron, Juan, III. lviii. The cubless tigress in her jungle raging.
1823. C. Sprague, Shakspeare Ode, Writ. 1843, 41.
| The cubless regent of the wood | |
| Forgets to bathe her fangs in blood. |
1854. Syd. Dobell, Balder, iv. 26. An orphan fawn That ran beside the cubless lioness.
