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Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

Destitute of charms. Swift.

In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.

A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix.

rthern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.

To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.

ich one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. -- Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbindi…

To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head. Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. Sir H. Wotton.

The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.

A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).

A genus of harmless serpents.

, venomous, Brazilian snake (Elaps corallinus), coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South American snake (Tortrix scytale). -- Coral tree (Bot.), a tropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is Erythrina Corallodendron. -- Coral woo…

een dame and dam. T. L. K. Oliphant. The dam runs lowing up end down, Looking the way her harmless young one went. Shak.

cies of dragon fly, having a long, cylindrical body, resembling a needle. These flies are harmless and without stings.

ended to be played as an accompaniment to a funeral procession. -- Dead nettle (Bot.), a harmless plant with leaves like a nettle (Lamium album). -- Dead oil (Chem.), the heavy oil obtained in the distillation of coal tar, and containing phenol, naphthalus, etc. -- Dead plate (Mach.), a solid covering over a part of…

ress, or put on; to array; to adorn. [Archaic] "She gan the house to dight." Chaucer. Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax. The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.

A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.

To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous; as, to disarm a man's wrath.

a cunning trick; an artifice. [Colloq.] Some, who have a taste for good living, have many harmless arts, by which they improve their banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries. Thackeray.

The possession of dovelike qualities, harmlessness and innocence. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.