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Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.

One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.

Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate. For here forlorn and lost I tread. Goldsmith. The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme. Prescott. She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living. Thomson. A forlorn hope Etym: [D. verloren…

Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.

Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water. Barren desert, fountainless and dry. Milton.

tholic Chucrch, an association for special religious purposes, for relieving the sick and destitute, etc.

Destitute of freight.

s. Friar bird (Zoöl.), an Australian bird (Tropidorhynchus corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus. -- Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wou…

Destitute of friends; forsaken. -- Friend"less*ness, n.

Destitute of a frock.

Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak.

Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.

Destitute of funds.

Destitute of game.

Destitute of a garden. Shelley.

Destitute of a garland. Shelley.

Destitute of ornament. [R.]

l, or hard) with, to affect (one) in such manner. -- To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of. -- To go wrong. (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. (b) To depart from virtue. (c) To happen unfortunately. (d) To miss success. -- To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to relea…

Destitute of gold.

red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure.