a. [f. CHIEF sb. + -LESS.] Having no chief.
c. 1730. Burt, Lett. N. Scotl. (1760), II. xxiii. 221. The Chiefless Highlander was going to the place.
1742. Pope, Dunc., IV. 617. And chiefless armies doz’d out the campaign.
1882. Athenæum, 22 April, 501/2. From the lowly estate of chiefless Eskimo and almost chiefless Australians.
