a. [f. FUND sb. + -LESS.] Without funds.
1891. The Saturday Review, LXXI. 7 March, 278/1. Young Mr. Harrison, who seems to have the qualities of a first-rate emergency man, executed an ingenious coup for the Parnellites at Belfast by attending a meeting of the anti-Parnellite Committee, annexing the funds and books of the League under authority from the Central Branch, closing the Committee, ‘letting in the National-‘ists,’ and reconstructing the Branch Parnellitically, while the unhappy anti-Parnellites, bookless, fundless, branchless, ‘denounced him in another room.’
