a. Sc. [See -LESS.] Having no tocher or portion, portionless.
1790. Shirrefs, Poems, 76. Wha bids the maist, is sure to win the prize, While she that’s tocherless, neglected dies.
1820. Scott, Monast., iv. I wasna sae tocherless but what I had a bit land at my breast-lace.
