15[?]. Songs Costume (Percy Soc.), 88. Elsse our horse and mayres shal be All taylesse at the Cart.
1781. Pennant, Quadrupeds, I. 109. Tailless D[eer]. Ibid., II. 405. Tailless M[armot].
1837. Marryat, Dog-fiend, xxxvi. He beheld Snarleyyow … tailless.
1854. Owen, Skel. & Teeth, in Orr’s Circ. Sc., Org. Nat., I. 189. The frog and other tail-less batrachians.
1874. T. Hardy, Madding Crowd, xxvi. Never did a fragile tailless sentence convey a more perfect meaning.
1887. Field, 2 July, 7/1. Tailless schipperkes.
1893. (see next).
Hence Taillessness.
1892. Pall Mall G., 24 Feb., 3/1. Our universal taillessness.
1893. Westm. Gaz., 22 Sept., 1/2. The little black Schipperkes, the tailless dogs of the Belgian bargees;.. their taillessness was a fraud.
