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MOTIVELESS a.
Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive. -- Mo"tive*less*ness, n. G. Eliot.
MOUTHLESS a.
Destitute of a mouth.
MOVELESS a.
Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
MUSCALES n.
An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticæ and sphagna.
MUSELESS a.
Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. Milton.
NAILLESS a.
Without nails; having no nails.
NAMELESS a. 4 definitions
Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller.
NAMELESSLY adv.
In a nameless manner.
NAPLES YELLOW n.
See under Yellow.
NAPLESS a.
Without nap; threadbare. Shak.
NATHLESS adv.
Nevertheless. [Archaic] Chaucer. Milton. E. Arnold.
NATURELESS a.
Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. [Obs.] Milton.
NEEDLESS a. 3 definitions
Having no need. [Obs.] Weeping into the needless stream. Shak.
NEEDLESTONE n.
Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
NEPAULESE a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. -- n. sing. & pl.
NERVELESS a. 2 definitions
Destitute 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.
NERVELESSNESS n.
The state of being nerveless.
NETTLES n. 3 definitions
The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.
NEVERTHELESS adv.
Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11.
NIGHTLESS a.
Having no night.
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