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Webster 1913 Edition
-less
-less
(-lĕs)
suff.
[AS.
leás
loose, false; akin to OS. lōs
loose, false, D. los
loose, loos
false, sly, G. los
loose, Icel. lauss
loose, vacant, Goth. laus
empty, vain, and also to E. loose
, lose
. √127. See Lose
, and cf. Loose
, Leasing
.] A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.