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Destitute of glands.

Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats. Words are but empty thanks. Cibber.

Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. [R.] "Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love." Thomson.

Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.

Destitute of expression.

Destitute of blood; anæmic; exsanguious.

Destitute of blood. Sir T. Browne.

Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham.

Destitute of vessels; non-vascular.

Destitute of fangs or tusks. "A fangless lion." Shak.

Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.

Destitute of feathers.

tions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.

Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.

Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.

destitute of fins.

Destitute of fire.

Destitute of flame. Sandys.

Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest. A large part of the work is, to me, very flat. Coleridge.

An insect belonging to the genus Pulex, of the order Aphaniptera. Fleas are destitute of wings, but have the power of leaping energetically. The bite is poisonous to most persons. The human flea (Pulex irritans), abundant in Europe, is rare in America, where the dog flea (P. canis) takes its place. See Aphaniptera, and…