a. rare. [f. FRET sb.2 or v.1 + -LESS.] a. Free from fret or annoyance. b. Of water: Unruffled.
1878. Browning, La Saisiaz.
| Fretless and free, | |
| Soul, clap thy pinion! | |
| Earth have dominion, | |
| Body, o’er thee! |
1894. A. Webster, Mother & Dau. (1895), 17.
| But she is still. A full and crystal lake | |
| So gives its skies their passage to its deeps | |
| In an unruffled morn where no winds wake, | |
| And, strong and fretless, stirs not, nor yet sleeps. |
