a. [f. STOMACH sb. + -LESS.]
† 1. a. Having no appetite. b. Unresentful. Obs.
1626. in Cosin’s Corr., I. (Surtees), 87. You will say this is nothing. I feele it some thing yet, being weake and stomacklesse.
1697. R. Peirce, Bath Mem., I. ii. 31. He was Stomachless, nautiated every thing they offer’d him to eat.
1722. Phil. Trans., XXXII. 30. This Application produced no considerable Alteration in the Dog; he neither appear’d sleepy nor stomachless.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Stomachless, wanting an Appetite; also, not apt to resent.
2. Destitute of a stomach.
1865. H. J. Slack, in Intell. Observer, VII. 96. A stomachless, organless thing, like the Gregarina.
Hence Stomachlessness.
1657. Trapp, Comm. Job xxxiii. 21. 292. What marvel if … extreme stomacklesness cause leaness and deformity.
