[f. ARM sb.1 + -LESS.] Without arm or branch.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Monkes T., 213. And saugh an hond armles, that wroot ful fast.
1596. R. L[inche], Diella (1877), 74. The crazen tops of armelesse Trees.
1859. Lewes, Phys. Com. Life, II. xii. 382. Progenitors of armless and legless babies.
