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A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [R.] Bacon.

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] Wyclif. Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

rate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak.

pernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

Without ganglia.

The quality of being aged; oldness. Custom without truth is but agedness of error. Milton.

Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

Without tongue; tongueless.

Without female organs; male.

Headlong; without restraint. [Obs.] L'Estrange. To go ahead. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on onward. (c) To push on in an enterprise. [Colloq] -- To get ahead of. (a) To get in advance of.

Helpless; without aid. Milton.

Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life. -- Aim"less*ly, adv. -- Aim"less*ness, n.

Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon.

Without an aisle.

A fish without scales.