chapless
English
Etymology
chap + -less
Adjective
chapless (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Having no lower jaw; fleshless.
- Hamlet - Shakespeare
HAMLETWhy, e'en so. And now my Lady Worm’s, chapless and knocked about the mazard with a sexton’s spade. Here’s fine revolution, an we had the trick to see ’t. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but to play at loggets with them? Mine ache to think on ’t.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chapless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)