a. Obs. or arch. rare. [f. TRACT sb.3 10 + -LESS.] = TRACKLESS.

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1628.  J. Doughty, Serm. Church-schismes, 14. There want not infinite tractlesse mazes, wherein they can lurke vndiscerned.

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1776.  Mickle, trans. Camoens’ Lusiad, 10.

        The dancing vanes before the Zephyrs flow’d,
And their bold keels the tractless Ocean plow’d.

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1818.  Hervey’s Medit., 190. Ye Fish, that rove through tractless [earlier edd. trackless] paths of the sea.

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1899.  Westm. Gaz., 19 Dec., 2/1. In tractless wastes that stretch to Southern Pole, Her restless keel takes its unhindered way.

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