a. Also 9 staunch-. [f. STANCH v. + -LESS.] That may not be stanched.
1605. Shaks., Macb., IV. iii. 78. A stanchlesse Auarice.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., I. 379. Where stanchlesse furie rap’t The Grecians in so fast, that scarcely one escap’t.
1820. Wiffen, Aonian Hours (ed. 2), 82. We … cannot heal the stanchless wound.
1821. Shelley, Epipsych., 320. Each word would be The key of staunchless tears.
