a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] Devoid or deprived of juice; dry; dried up.

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1602.  Marston, Antonio’s Rev., Prol. Snarling gusts nibble the juyceles leaves.

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1684.  T. Burnet, The. Earth, I. 190. The earth … by that time was more barren and juiceless … than ours is now.

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1746.  R. James, Introd. Moufet’s Health’s Improv., 8. To render juiceless the Membranes, Tendons, Cartilages, and Bones of Animals.

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 235. Fruit drupaceous, juiceless, with several cells.

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  b.  fig. Devoid of interest; insipid, ‘dry.’

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1620.  E. Blount, Horæ Subs., 204. The Epitome, which is for the most part a iuycelesse Narration.

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1883.  American, VI. 29. The juiceless remarks of these good men.

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1889.  Home Missionary (N. Y.), Nov., 316. Those who suppose that life on the frontier is juiceless.

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