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liceless

liceless adjective: without lice.

Adjective

liceless (not comparable)

  1. Without lice.
    • Device for Licelesss Roosts.[…]This cup, formed by the inverting of the insulator, should be kept filled with oil, and no lice can crawl up to where the chickens are.1906 February, W. F. Hines, Missouri Valley Farmer, seventeenth year, number 1, Topeka, Kan.; Kansas City, Mo.; Chicago, Ill., page 9
    • WILL BUILD “LICELESS” CHICKEN COOPS HERE. Andy Baldwin of Boulder Creek, who has invented a new chicken coop which is claimed to be proof against lice, is in town to look for a location for manufacturing his coops on a large scale.1908 August 25, Santa Cruz Evening News, volume II, number 103, Santa Cruz, Calif., page four
    Synonyms:
    louseless

Examples of liceless in a sentence

  • A sitting hen kept free from lice will mean liceless chicks.1916, Extension Bulletin, page 15:
  • But at Moscow I was liceless and flealess.1920 November 6, Alfons Goldschmidt, “Moscow in 1920”, in Soviet Russia: Official Organ of the Russian Soviet Government Bureau, volume...
  • I remember the Corps Commander passing the billet when we were busy with our hot irons, extruding the lice from trousers and shirts.[…]We were certainly a liceless battalion.1924, Andrew Dewar Gibb, With Winston Churchill at the Front: Winston in the Trenches 1916, Frontline Books, published 2016, →ISBN:
  • Those who did, and those who did not – have lice, that is.[…]We, the liceless, got preferential treatment from the teacher.1995 September 6, Barbara Wamboldt, “A lice-told tale in a class of its own”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard, Kingston, Ont., page 4:

Synonyms of liceless

Origin of liceless

From lice + -less.

Questions about liceless

What does liceless mean?
Liceless means without lice.
How do you use liceless in a sentence?
A sitting hen kept free from lice will mean liceless chicks.
What part of speech is liceless?
Liceless is an adjective.

Words near liceless in the dictionary

  1. Liceas
  2. licecide
  3. licecides
  4. liceities
  5. liceity
  6. liceless
  7. liceling
  8. licelings
  9. licence
  10. licence laundering
  11. licence plate

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