a. [f. TORCH sb. + -LESS.] Without a torch; not lighted by a torch.
1814. Byron, Lara, II. xii. Consenting Night Guides with her star their dim and torchless flight.
1845. Examiner, 31 May, 5/1. The travellers would have got on better the next night with a torch or two; and every one said so, but nobody did more than say it. The consequence was that they started torchless again.
1901. trans. Hugo’s Notre-Dame (ed. Nelson), 388. Showing the interior of the Church … torchless and voiceless.
