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Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.

), to stand in a comfortable attitude in one's place in the ranks. -- With ease, easily; without much effort.

Without ease. Donne.

With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness. Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness. South.

eretical, by the Roman Catholic Church), has as its creed the Niceno- Constantinopolitan (without the later addition of the filioque, which, with the doctrine it represents, the church decisively rejects), baptizes infants with trine immersion, makes confirmation follow immediately upon baptism, administers the Communi…

Without bracts.

Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

Without a tail or spur.

Without echo or response.

or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste. "Economists even to parsimony." Burke.

Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. Political economy. See under Political.

A combining form signifying without, outside, external.

The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

A group of Crustacea in which the eyes are without stalks; the Arthrostraca. [Written also Edriophthalmata.]

, in fact; in substance. See 8, above. -- Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without effect, destitute of results, validity, force, and the like; vain; fruitless. "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition." Mark vii. 13. "All my study be to no effect." Shak. -- To give effect to, to ma…

Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.

elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive. The beautiful wildness of nature, without the nicer elegancies of art. Spectator.

Without fault; correctly. [Obs.]