a. [f. LABOUR sb. + -LESS.] Without, devoid of, or unaccompanied by labor; requiring no labor; doing no labor.
1608. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. III. Schism, 694. There (labour-less) mounts the victorious Palm.
1675. Hobbes, Odyss. (1677), 225. I doubt thou ne’r wilt labour any more, But rather feed thy carcass labourless.
1854. Fraser’s Mag., L. 70. This labourless Hercules.
1880. Tennyson, Voy. Maeldune, viii. Bread enough for his need till the labourless day dipt under the West.
1888. Rhys, Hibbert Lect., 643. A fabled age of … labourless plenty and social equality.
† b. Not requiring fatiguing toil. Obs.
1630. Brerewood, Sabaoth, 48. In forbidding of worke,… they intend not your precise abstinence from any light and labourlesse worke.
1631. R. Byfield, Doctr. Sabb., 109. Such light and labourlesse workes were no transgressions.
