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lidless

lidless adjective: without a lid.

Adjective

lidless (not comparable)

  1. Without a lid.
    • […] yet, as she lies
      By livid fount, or roar of blazing stream,
      If ever to her lidless dragon eyes,
      O Albion! thy predestin’d ruins rise,
      The Fiend-hag on her perilous couch doth leap,
      Mutt’ring distemper’d triumph in her charmed sleep.1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year,” Epode II, in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle & Messrs. Robinsons, 2nd edition, p. 15
    • Two or three minutes later the murdered man, the blanketed corpse, the lidless coffin, and the open grave were under no inspection but the moon’s.1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 9”, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC

Examples of lidless in a sentence

  • You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!—as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 6”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
  • The cup of café mocha flew out of my grasp and settled lidless on the pavement.2007, Nicole Young, chapter 11, in Love Me If You Must (A Patricia Amble Mystery), Grand Rapids, Mich.: Fleming H. Revell, →ISBN, page 93:

Origin of lidless

From lid + -less.

Words formed from lidless

Questions about lidless

What does lidless mean?
Lidless means without a lid.
How do you use lidless in a sentence?
You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!—as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.
What part of speech is lidless?
Lidless is an adjective.

Words near lidless in the dictionary

  1. Lidgett
  2. Lidia
  3. Lidice
  4. Lidington
  5. Lidingö
  6. lidless
  7. lidlessness
  8. Lidlidda
  9. lidlike
  10. Lidlington
  11. lidlock

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