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ute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.

The state of being nerveless.

A short novel.

One who ravels.

One who revels. "Moonshine revelers." Shak.

k green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a similar species.

lliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless. [Obs.] Shak. The vexation of a sleeveless errand. Bp. Warburton.

One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.

or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [Written also travelled.] The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron.

One who travels; one who has traveled much.

Not traveled; not trodden by passengers; as, an untraveled forest.

A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.

Having varvels, or rings. [Written also varvelled, and vervelled.]

Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea.

A little wave; a ripple.

Wifeless. [Obs.] Homilies.

A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.

ards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton.

Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.

A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.