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Definition of Chapless
1. a. Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless.
Definition of Chapless
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Having no lower jaw; fleshless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chapless
1. without cracks [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chapless
Literary usage of Chapless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1913)
"O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow
chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead ..."
2. The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare (1917)
"Why, e'en so, and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and knocked about the maz- zard
with a sexton's ... 122 97 chapless: lacking the lower jaw mazzard: head 101 ..."
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