a. Obs. or arch. rare. [f. TRACT sb.3 10 + -LESS.] = TRACKLESS.
1628. J. Doughty, Serm. Church-schismes, 14. There want not infinite tractlesse mazes, wherein they can lurke vndiscerned.
1776. Mickle, trans. Camoens’ Lusiad, 10.
| The dancing vanes before the Zephyrs flow’d, | |
| And their bold keels the tractless Ocean plow’d. |
1818. Hervey’s Medit., 190. Ye Fish, that rove through tractless [earlier edd. trackless] paths of the sea.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 19 Dec., 2/1. In tractless wastes that stretch to Southern Pole, Her restless keel takes its unhindered way.
