a. [f. SMELL sb. + -LESS.]
1. Giving out no smell; scentless.
1612. Two Noble K., I. i. Dazies smel-lesse, yet most quaint.
1683. Salmon, Doron Med., II. 516. An almost colourless, smell-less, tast-less Liquor.
1855. J. F. W. Johnston, Chem. Common Life, I. xiii. 331. The nearly smell-less juice acquires a fetid … odour.
1882. Nature, XXVI. 187. Methyl alcohol, in a state of purity, is smell-less.
2. Having no sense of smell.
1873. Mivart, Elem. Anat., 113. They may … abort altogether, as is the case in the probably smell-less Porpoises.
