a. [-LESS.] Having no string; lacking strings.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. vi. 322. [The porcupine] Who string-less shoots so many arrowes out.
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., II. i. 149. His tongue is now a stringlesse instrument.
1826. A. A. Watts, Poet’s Den, 89. A broken, stringless lute.
1882. J. Payn, Thicker than Water, iii. He had a frameless, stringless glass, which stuck in his eye with the tenacity of a limpet.
1894. Blackmore, Perlycross, xviii. 151. Her hat being stringless had flown far away.
