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Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.

Without health, whether of body or mind; in firm. "A healthless or old age." Jer. Taylor.

The state of being health

Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent. Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden. Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing.

Destitute of heat; cold. Beau. & Fl.

Having no hedge.

Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant. O, negligent and heedless discipline! Shak. The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so. Waller. -- Heed"less*ly, adv. -- Heed"less*ness, n.

Without a heel.

Destitute of an heir. Shak.

A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Ægean Sea and the sea of Marmora.

Of or pertaining to the Hellespont. Mitford.

Destitute of a helmet.

p or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant. How shall I then your helpless fame defend Pope.

Destitute of herbs or of vegetation. J. Warton.

A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra. Hercules' beetle (Zoöl.), any species of Dynastes, an American genus of very large lamellicorn beetles, esp. D. hercules of South America, which grows to a length of six inches. -- Hercules' club. (Bot.) (a) An ornamental tree of the West Indies (Zanthoxylum Clava…

Without a hinge or joint.

Without hire. Davenant.

Destitute of a hive. Gascoigne.

Destitute of a home. -- Home"less*ness, n.

Destitute of honey. Shak.