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Definition of Armless
1. Adjective. Having no arms. "The armless Venus de Milo"
Definition of Armless
1. a. Without any arm or branch.
Definition of Armless
1. Adjective. having no arms ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Armless
1. having no arms [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Armless
Literary usage of Armless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"In Greece the people on Shrove Tuesday take a block of wood and dress it in old
clothes to represent a very fat but armless and legless personage. ..."
2. The Childhood of Art; Or, The Ascent of Man: Or, The Ascent of Man; a Sketch by Herbert Green Spearing (1913)
"armless figurine made of lead, a material very seldom used for this purpose. Iu;.
113.—Ivory figurine with knob on head rather similar to that in Fig. 106. ..."
3. A Lawyer's Idle Hours: Sentiment-satire-humor-life-death-glory by C. Augustus Haviland (1902)
"... THE armless HERO'S PLEA. Gather the flowers of May, love, Gather them 'mid
the dew, Lay them all over the Gray, ..."
4. Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey by Charles Boileau Elliott (1838)
"—armless musician.— Uncultivated lands.— Oppression of peasantry. — Road to
Philadelphia. — Instance of cruelty. — Scenery. — Tombstones. ..."
5. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk-tales by Robert Nisbet Bain (1902)
"At last the armless one said : " What is the use of our quarrelling ? ...
Then armless kicked Legless up to the oak, and Legless pulled it ..."
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