a. [f. SUMMIT sb. + -LESS.] Having no summit.
a. 1834. in Sir H. Taylor, Artevelde, Note to I. IV. i. Vast outlines, mountains summitless, grey wastes.
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., IV. V. v. § 4. Watching the cloud still march before them with its summitless pillar.
1877. W. R. Cooper, Egypt. Obelisks, i. (1878), 3. The mutilated and summitless fragments [of obelisks].
