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Not having a beam.

Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.

The state or quality of being destitute of beard.

Destitute of beauty. Hammond.

Having no benefice. "Beneficeless precisians." Sheldon.

Of mean extraction. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Not having a bit or bridle.

Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of. A bishop then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. We will be blameless of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17.

In a blameless manner.

The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.

Without blemish; spotless. A life in all so blemishless. Feltham.

To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. Gen. ii. 3.

Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton.

See under Thistle.

Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.

The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak.

One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.

The act of one who blesses.

Destitute of bliss. Sir P. Sidney.

Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead. The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. Dryden.