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ing no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. Milton.

Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.

The state of being causeless.

Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. Whillock.

Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.

The state of being houseless.

Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. Milton.

Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.

ding from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

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.

To render useless or void; to annul; to reject; to send away. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleing.

To render void or useless; to vacate or annul. [Obs.]

aid of a horse or ox. -- To cast aside, to throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient. -- To cast away. (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To wreck. "Cast away and s…

Of no value; rejected; useless.

Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.

To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson. A statue li…

and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless. Cheyne.

ength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to Ant: dilute. Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength. Arbuthnot.

To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble. Why asks he what avails him not in fight, And would but cumber and retard his flight Dryden. Martha was cumbered about muc…

Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.