a. [f. FEE sb.2 + -LESS.] Without a fee or fees; not bringing, paying, or yielding fees; not receiving fees.
1740. Somerville, Hobbinol, II. 260.
| In Shoals they come, | |
| Neglected feeless Clients. |
1825. Ld. Cockburn, Mem., ii. 145. He could not tell a story without disclosing his power [i.e., of mimicry]—a fee-less faculty.
1848. Lytton, Harold, VII. v. Feeless went he now from man to man.
1852. Ld. Cockburn, Jeffrey, I. 179. His practice … included the whole of our Courts, Civil, Criminal, and even ecclesiastical, the most fee-less of them all.
1886. Pall Mall G., 23 Sept., 2/1. There is any number of formalities to be gone through, the first of which consists in sending the fee-less child home.
1892. Star, 3 Aug., 1/6. Praiseworthy zeal for a feeless theatre.
