a. [f. WAVE sb. + -LESS.] Having no waves or undulation; not agitated or disturbed by waves. Also fig.

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a. 1597[?].  Peele, David & Bethsabe (1599), B j b. Thy body smoother then this wauelesse spring.

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1799.  Campbell, Pleas. Hope, II. 127. In the waveless mirror of his mind.

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1804.  Grahame, Sabbath, 212. A waveless lake, In which the wintry stars all bright appear.

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1818.  Shelley, Eugan. Hills, 91. Beneath is spread like a green sea The waveless plain of Lombardy.

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1842.  Barham, Ingol. Leg., Fragm. Westm. Abbey, 12. Above each knightly stall Unmoved, the banner’d blazonry hung waveless as a pall.

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1872.  M. Collins, Two Plunges for Pearl, III. 166. Lotos-islands in a waveless bay.

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1887.  G. W. Cable, Grande Pointe, v. in Century Mag., March, 668/1. Their delicately penciled brows, their dark, waveless hair.

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1890.  ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer, xii. Waveless uniformity, not to say monotony, of existence.

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  Hence Wavelessly adv.

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1819.  Blackw. Mag., VI. 136.

        And wavelessly the river spread
Its silver mirror.

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1845.  [Emma Robinson], Whitehall, iii. So placidly and wavelessly the winds of passion or guilt glide past the waters of time.

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