a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] Having no FOREHEAD (sense 2): † a. having no sense of shame (obs.); b. destitute of confidence.

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a. 1603.  T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 713. And what will not these men giue out of the ancient Writers, whom few can get and fewer use, when they are thus foreheadlesse in forging Scriptures, whereof the triall is so ready?.

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1621.  S. Ward, Serm. Jethro’s J. P., 25. If Iethro called for courage in those modest primitiue times, and among a people newly tamed with Ægyptian yokes: what doe our audacious and fore-headlesse Swaggerers require?

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1844.  Browning, Colombe’s Birthday, v. Poems, 1849, I. 369.

          Mel.…                        How
Behaved our spokesman with the forehead?
  Berth.                    Oh,
Turned out no better than the foreheadless.

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