a. [F. STREAM sb. + -LESS.] a. Of water: Having no current. b. Of a ditch or river-bed: Having no water. c. Of a district: Having no streams.
1827. Nat. Gaz., 17 Dec., 1/5. One of its most melancholy objects is the vestige of the city gate, which stands within it like a mouldering bridge above a streamless ravine.
1863. Bates, Nat. Amazons, x. (1864), 288. The picturesque hilly country of the Tapajos, and its dark streamless waters.
1868. Dilke, Greater Brit., II. 33. The Murray in February is a streamless ditch.
1888. A. H. Keane, in Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 758/2. Such a bleak, arid, and almost streamless land.
