earless

Adjective

earless (not comparable)

1. Lacking ears.
   • Earless seals are probably more hydrodynamic without ear lobes.
   • There are but few farmers who have failed to notice the large number of poor and earless stalks in the crop, but few can give any reason. They have often seen a good stalk and a poor one in the same hill—one with perhaps two good ears, the other with none on it. Just so long as we select as we do...1883 January, A. E. Blount, “Experiments in Corn Culture”, in Agricultural Review and Journal of the American Agricultural Association, volume III, number 1, page 11

   Synonyms:

   uneared

   Antonyms:

   eared

Noun (1)

UK/ɜːlɛs/US/ɝlɛs/

earless (plural earlesses)

1. (nonstandard) A countess (a female holder of an earldom or the wife of an earl).
   • “Don’t you think you could catch this Earl (for Doctor Willett, and he never told a lie in his life, says he is so). You know Arley hasn’t much tact. An earl is better than to be the rich Mrs. Haverhill! An earl’s wife is a duchess, or at least, an earless—” / “A countess, ’ma!”1870, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Annie Temple; Or, The Bankrupt's Heiress: A Home Romance, page 80
   • “You see I don’t knew much about titles, as we have only the royal family in Honolulu—she is called an Earless, I suppose.” / “No, a countess. An earl in the English peerage is of the same rank as a count in some of the continental countries. When I come into the title, if I am married, my wife...1900, Linn Boyd Porter, A Sugar Princess, page 240

Noun (2) capitalized: Earless

Earless (plural Earlesses)

1. Alternative letter-case form of earless (female earl)