a. [f. BEAM sb.1 + -LESS.] Without beams, rayless; occas. fig.
1679. Dryden, Œdipus, I. i. Wks. 1725, IV. 375. A bald and beamless Fire.
1746–58. Hervey, Medit. (1818), 268. At length all her [the moon’s] beauty vanishes, and she becomes a beamless orb.
1821. Joanna Baillie, Ld. John, xx. The stony look of his beamless eyes.
