a. [f. STEED + -LESS.] Without a steed.
1795. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), IV. 93. When the horses have drawn us to the ocean’s brim, they are taken off, and we pursue our needleworks in the steedless vehicle.
1841. Whittier, Norsemen, 20. The … rapid jar Of the fire-winged and steedless car.
1867. Chronicle, No. 39. 926/1. Here I linger spearless, steedless.
Hence Steedlessly adv.
1865. S. Evans, Bro. Fabian’s MS., 118. Shiplessly, steedlessly, Takes he his journey.
