a. [f. FAT sb. + -LESS.] Without fat or greasy matter.
1825. Blackw. Mag., XVIII., Aug., 155/2. A mere wafer of fatless ham, between the finest shives of bread, constituted a breakfast.
1872. Huxley, Phys., vi. 137. It takes about four pounds of fatless meat (which generally contains about one-fourth its weight of dry solid proteids) to yield 4,000 grains of carbon, whereas one pound will furnish 300 grains of nitrogen.
