a. [f. BRIDGE sb. + -LESS.] Having no bridge, unspanned by a bridge; also fig.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, V. x. A free and bridgeless tide, Euphrates rolls along.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IX. XX. viii. 157. A chasm or bridgeless interstice between two ramparts.
1884. H. Drummond, Nat. Law in Spir. W. (ed. 8), 72. The bridgeless gulf between the natural and the spiritual.
b. Of the nose.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, in Cornh. Mag., VII. 286. His bridgeless nose and low forehead.
