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chapless

chapless adjective: having no lower jaw; fleshless.

Adjective

chapless (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Having no lower jaw; fleshless.
    • Why, 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.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Origin of chapless

From chap + -less.

Questions about chapless

What does chapless mean?
Chapless means having no lower jaw; fleshless.
What part of speech is chapless?
Chapless is an adjective.

Words near chapless in the dictionary

  1. chaplainry
  2. chaplains
  3. chaplainship
  4. chaplainships
  5. CHAPLE syndrome
  6. chapless
  7. chaplet
  8. chapleted
  9. chaplets
  10. chapli
  11. chapli kabab

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