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Sameness, 2. [R.] Bayne.

The female bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.]

Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace. "Such shameless bards we have." Pope. Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless. Shak.

A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.

Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.

Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. Bp. Hall. -- Tame"less*ness, n.

In a tame manner.

is the cause; a performance; a deed. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses:

adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

Shamelessly. [Obs.] Bacon.

izards which belong to the family Iguanidæ. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.

Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.

ite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.

Notoriously or preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.

. [Obs. or Archaic] It made the laughter of an afternoon That Vivien should attempt the blameless king. Thackeray.

scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, its fifth below (fourth above), or subdominant, and its relative minor or major.

A native of Bactria. Bactrian camel, the two-humped camel.

A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious. "Barefaced treason." J. Baillie.