Obs. [variant of LEAFLESS, influenced by the pl. leaves.] Without leaves.
1581. T. Howell, Deuises (1879), 199. When Boreas rough, had leauelesse left eche tree.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, II. 370. With wood, leauelesse, and kindl’d at Apposed fire, they burne the thighes.
1638. Carew, Verses pref. to Sandys’ Div. Poems, 34. Then, I no more shall court the Verdant Bay, But the dry leavelesse Trunke on Golgotha.
