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Without boasting or ostentation.

Without material form; incorporeal. Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift.

Without bones. "Boneless gums." Shak.

Without a bonnet.

Without books; unlearned. Shenstone.

Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer. I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak. -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness, n.

Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.

A corkscrew. Swift.

Without a bottom; hence, fathomless; baseless; as, a bottomless abyss. "Bottomless speculations." Burke.

Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay.

Without a bourn or limit.

Without pity. Sir T. Browne.

Destitute of a bow.

Destitute of bracts.

Without bragging. [R.] Shak.

Without understanding; silly; thougthless; witless. -- Brain"less*ness, n.

Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

Without bread; destitude of food. Plump peers and breadless bards alike are dull. P. Whitehead.

Without breadth.

fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. Byron.