a. [f. LINE sb.2 + -LESS.]
† 1. Of a person: ? To whom no bounds can be set. Obs. rare–1. (If not a misprint for tirelesse.)
1594. Carew, Tasso, II. lix. The tother is Circassian Argant cald … Vntreatable, vnpatient, vnappald, In armes linelesse [It. infaticabile], and peerlesse valiaunt.
2. Having no impressed or indented lines.
1798. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XXVI. 247. His countenances have the physiognomy of nature, not the vague lineless face of the statuaries.
1878. Tinsley’s Mag., XXIII. 70. Her face … was smooth and lineless.
1896. R. Kipling, Seven Seas, Coastwise Lights, ii. Through the endless summer evenings, on the lineless, level floors.
