a. [f. FOUNTAIN + -LESS.] Without fountains.

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1671.  Milton, P. R., III. 262.

                                So large
The Prospect was, that here and there was room
For barren desert fountainless and dry.

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1816.  Scott, Old Mort. (1830–2), II. xviii. 164. Like Hagar watching the waning life of her infant amid the fountainless desert.

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1842.  De Quincey, Philos. Herodotus, Wks. IX. 207. A mere worthless wilderness … trackless from sands, and everywhere fountainless, arid, scorched (as they believed) in the interior.

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