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Destitute of kindness; unnatural.[Obs.] "Kindless villain." Shak.

To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God. James i. 5.

Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.

Empty; destitute; wanting; as:

A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.

Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story. -- Life"less*ly, adv. -- Life"less*ness, n.

Destitute of light; dark. Shak.

Destitute of limbs.

Destitute of a lock.

ary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.

Destitute of luster; dim; dull.

Destitute of men. Bakon.

Destitute of marrow.

urselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.

Destitute of a master or owner; ungoverned or ungovernable. -- Mas"ter*less*ness, n.

Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. "Meager soil." Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. Motley.…

Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble. "Of mean parentage." Sir P. Sidney. The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself. Is. ii. 9.

Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak.

Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous. Pope.

The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.