a. [f. LEG sb. + -LESS.] Having no legs; deprived of legs.

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1597.  Middleton, Wisdom Solomon, ix. 4. A legless body is my kingdom’s map.

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1848.  C. Lanman, Angler in Canada, 207. He dragged his [a seal’s] clumsy and legless body along the ground.

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1879.  Lubbock, Sci. Lect., iii. 69. The larvæ of ants … are small, white, legless grubs.

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