a. [f. CROSS sb. + -LESS.] Without a cross (in various senses of the word; as e.g. † without a coin, penniless).
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xvi. 63. A bystorye or wepen crysolite, as it were a lityl swerde crosseles.
1600. Rowlands, Lett. Humours Blood, xxviii. 34. Three high-way standers, haueing cros-lesse cursse.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., II. 256/2. Where man doth man within the Law betosse, Till some go croslesse home by Woodcocks Crosse.
1891. Ch. Times, 4 Sept., 844/2. A Crossless Church, a religion without austerity, has never yet made headway.
