[f. BIRD sb. + LESS.] Void of birds; deserted or unfrequented by birds.
1508. Balade, in Sibbald’s Scot. Poetry, I. 155. A birdless cage; a key withouten lok.
1797. Holcroft, Stolberg’s Trav. (ed. 2), II. lxiii. 426. The Greeks gave it the appellation of Aornos: or birdless.
