[f. ARM sb.2 + -LESS.] Without weapons of offence or defence, unarmed.
a. 1619. Beaum. & Fl., Q. of Corinth, IV. iii. (T.). Integrity thus armless seeks her foes.
1661. Morgan, Sph. Gentry, I. vi. 87. We shall find them all armed but the armless Hind.
1870. Spurgeon, Treas. David, Ps. xxxvii. 17. Toothless malice, armless malevolence!
