a. [f. TOMB sb. + -LESS.] Having no tomb or sepulchral monument, destitute of a grave; unburied. Also fig.

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1594.  Barnfield, Affect. Sheph., II. xxxvi. Fame is toombles, Vertue liues for aye.

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1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., I. ii. 229. Or lay these bones in an vnworthy Vrne, Tomblesse, with no remembrance ouer them.

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a. 1814.  Orpheus, III. i., in New Brit. Theatre, III. 298. Shades of the tombless dead!

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1823.  Praed, Australasia, 231. The bleak desert, or the tombless sea.

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a. 1849.  J. C. Mangan, Poems (1859), 373. And scorn shall point at our tombless graves.

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1855.  O. W. Holmes, Poems, 188. Shroudless and tombless they sank to their rest.

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1876.  G. F. Armstrong, Trag. Israel, I. 41.

        Till the last ill and deepest night of night
Be past, and he hath found the tombless fields.

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