a. [f. CHAP sb.2 + -LESS.] Without the lower jaw or chap.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., IV. i. 83. Yellow chappels [chappeless] sculls. Ibid. (1602), Ham., V. i. 97. Chaplesse, and knockt about the Mazard with a Sextons Spade.
1812. W. Tennant, Anster Fair, V. lxiv. Pale Death, the chapless and the grim.
1855. Fraser’s Mag., LI. 225. Nor … does he … recognise the chapless bones with wonderful sagacity.
