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Without a guardian. Marston.

Without a guard or defense; unguarded. Chapman.

Without reward or guerdon.

Without a guide. Dryden.

Free from guile; artless. -- Guile"less*ly, adv. Guile"less*ness, n.

Free from guilt; innocent. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7.

, used poetically for a red color or that which is red. His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules. Shak. Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. Beau. & Fl.…

Tasteless; insipid. [R.]

Destitute of hair. Shak.

A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.

Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.

Without a hand. Shak.

Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.

In a hapless, unlucky manner.

Without a harbor; shelterless.

Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. "Harvestless autumns." Tennyson.

Having no hat.

Having little or nothing. [Obs.] Gower.

Destitute of haze. Tyndall.